Will this be a sort of vaguely fantastical Jack Reacher, where a mythological character just wanders around righting wrongs in the world?
Your guess is as good as mind, but Gilroy has a pretty good track record in his years in Hollywood, so fingers crossed that this is still a movie worth checking out.
Gilroy apparently is also pitching Warner Bros. on a “creative overhaul” of the original script, keeping only the title character and the basic elements of his backstory.
Hey, remember that weekend last October when it was announced that Tom Cruise would be playing Methuselah, the biblical warrior who lived to be more than 900 years old?