Sam Worthington May Star Alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Agatha Christie-Influenced Actioner ‘Ten’
With most of the movie-going world still unsold on Sam Worthington as a leading man (really, guy, Man on a Ledge? The Titans films?), the Aussie actor has perhaps made a very wise choice for his next big action role. Variety reports (via ComingSoon) that Worthington is in talks to join (and is, in fact, expected to accept an offer) for David Ayer’s Ten, a film that would see him starring alongside, you guessed it, ten other stars (including Arnold Schwarzenegger, who joined the project in May).
Reportedly a “testosterone-heavy riff” of an Agatha Christie-penned classic (“And Then There Were None”), the film has been scripted by Skip Woods and sounds like one hell of a blast.
It will follow “an elite DEA task force that deals with the world’s deadliest drug cartels. Specializing in complex mobile operations, the team executes a tactical raid on a cartel safe house. What looks to be a typical raid turns out to be an elaborate theft operation, pre-planned by the DEA squad. After hiding millions in stolen cash, the team believes their secret is safe ‐ until someone begins assassinating them one by one.” Sounds like a more cerebral spin on The Expendables, which sounds like some superb popcorn cinema.
If you’re not familiar with Christie’s “And Then There Were None” (also known as “Ten Little Indians”), you’ll most likely still recognize some stuff about its plot (the book is also the world’s best-selling mystery novel and has been used as a basis for innumerable other works over the years). First published in the U.K. in 1939, the detective novel centers on “ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice or punishment, [who] are tricked into coming onto an island. Although the guests are the only people on the island, each is murdered one by one, in a manner paralleling, inexorably and sometimes grotesquely, the old nursery rhyme, Ten Little Indians.” Cool, right?
