What the Hell Happened to Josh Hartnett?

Josh Hartnett rocketed onto the A-list with Michael Bay’s buster of blocks Pearl Harbor and seemed to be the virile leading man Hollywood was looking for. He worked with Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott and seemed to be a sure-fire movie star. And then, he just sort of disappeared.

What the hell happened?

Josh Hartnett was born July 21, 1978 in Minnesota. After playing sports for most of his life, he had to give up football after a knee injury. He won the part of Tom Sawyer in a stage play, and fell in love with acting. He did some other plays, small TV appearances, and commercials before breaking into film.

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Josh Hartnett – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later – 1998

Hartnett scored a small role in the ever-continuing Halloween franchise, which was celebrating its 20th anniversary. I actually tried to see this movie as a kid (I was 8 at the time) by sneaking in after buying a ticket for another movie. I got caught. Jamie Lee Curtis returns and is joined by LL Cool J as well as teenage knife-fodder Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The reviews were mixed-average as you’d expect (this was during the Scream renaissance of horror-comedy self-awareness) but made a healthy profit at the box office.

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Josh Hartnett – The Faculty – 1998

Hartnett scored a leading role in Robert Rodriguez’s teen-horror-thriller in which the teachers are aliens and kill the kids, because we all know that we’ve thought that is the only explanation for teacher’s behavior. Hartnett plays the lead jock kid. The movie is fun because Rodriguez has fun with the genre tropes, and I would say is better than the picture, but Rodriguez’s filmography is baffling. He’s a potential WTHHer. Seriously, how can the guy who made Sin City and Once Upon a Time in Mexico make Adv of Sharkboy and Lavagirl? How? Anyway, it exposed Hartnett to the world making him an insta-heartthrob.

Reviews were mixed and the movie did so-so at the box office.  It opened in 5th place just ahead of Mighty Joe Young.  That’s embarrassing enough.  But the next weekend, Mighty Joe Young actually pulled ahead.  In the end, the gorilla remake actually grossed $10 million dollars more than the teen-horror-movie.  Fortunately, The Faculty cost a lot less.

Josh Hartnett and Kirsten Dunst - The Virgin Suicides - 1999
Josh Hartnett and Kirsten Dunst – The Virgin Suicides – 1999

Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut is a moody, atmospheric, little gem of a film that helped make a star of Kirsten Dunst. Hartnett has a large role as one of the boys in love with the reclusive, religious sisters that are shrouded in mystery. Their overbearing parents don’t allow them “normal” childhoods. This culminates in the ultimate rebellion, which I’ll let you deduce from the title. It’s a great film with strong performances from all, though Coppola’s detached style overshadows any individual acting, and almost Hartnett’s hair. It received extremely good reviews and broke about even with its small budget.

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Josh Hartnett and Leelee Sobieski – Here on Earth – 2000

This little seen movie starring Chris Klein (blech) and Leelee Sobieski features Hartnett in a supporting role as one of the locals of the town who butts heads with the posh boy from out of town. They must street race to solve this issue, as the ancients once did. This ends with a car crash. For punishment they must rebuild the diner, and live together! Surely many lessons are learned. Critics hated it for being terminally sappy (I get the idea someone is dying) and audiences weren’t interested in the teen melodrama.

Josh Hartnett - Blow Dry - 2000
Josh Hartnett – Blow Dry – 2000

An English wit-comedy with Alan Rickman and Rachel Leigh Cook, features Hartnett in a supporting role as Rickman’s son who works with him at a barbershop. His ex-wife and her current (female) lover run a salon in the same town. When the hairdressing champion (apparently that’s a thing) shows up in town to taunt Rickman for retreating into a barbershop and no longer having the oomph to compete (somehow making a feminine activity into masculine competition) Hartnett teams with the ex-wife (who has terminal cancer, because there is no other kind) and enters the competition. Cook is the champion’s daughter with whom there must be romance.

That was way more description for this terribly reviewed comedy deserves, failing to connect with audiences like Simon Beaufoy’s (writer) previous effort The Full Monty. His English accent isn’t horrible, but it definitely isn’t steady, and sounds Scottish now and again.

Josh Hartnett - Town & Country - 2001
Josh Hartnett – Town & Country – 2001

This inept comedy features Warren Beatty in a rare film of his that 1. actually got made and 2. isn’t written/directed/and starring him. Unfortunately for everyone involved, this should’ve been added to the long list of things Beatty killed by being controlling Warren Beatty. It also has Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn so you know it’s really bad. Hartnett is in there somewhere, but it’s not like that matters. It follows a bunch of 50+ people who are having affairs and behaving like young people.

It was a monumental flop, somehow it had an almost $100 mill budget (over the hill stars don’t come cheap) and opened DOA in theaters. The Wall Street Journal said this

Ragging on Town & Country is like shooting a school of fish that’s already belly up in a fetid barrel, but the movie’s ineptitude is almost incomparable.

Ouch.

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Josh Hartnett – Pearl Harbor – 2001

Michael Bay cemented his legacy as the director that makes things go boom with Pearl Harbor. Having exactly 0 shits to give about history or the actual event, Bay turns the entire affair into a silly love triangle between Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, and Josh Hartnett. All turn in terrible performances and Bay just used the namesake of the film as a backdrop for the stupid love story. Basically Ben Affleck is in love with a nurse. He goes away to fight the war. Everyone thinks he died. He didn’t. Pearl Harbor happens. Cuba Gooding Jr. shoots that big gun and yells. Beckinsale falls for Hartnett. Feelings are had when Affleck returns. This takes three effing hours.

Hartnett beat out Matt Damon for the role (who was too busy) as well as Wes Bentley and Ashton Kutcher. Critics hated the film, but Bay says he got lots of letters from vets who say they loved it and he got it right. It made a lot of money at the box office.  It grossed nearly $200 million dollars in the US and another $250 million overseas.  That’s a pretty impressive box office take, right?  The problem is Disney spent $140 million in production costs alone.  They marketed Pearl Harbor heavily which means it barely broke even in the US.  Disney was expecting another Titanic and was bitterly disappointed with the relatively meager profits they made.

Pearl Harbor was supposed to send Hartnett onto the A-list along with Affleck.  Instead, he helped bump Affleck off the A-list.

Josh Hartnett - O - 2001
Josh Hartnett – O – 2001

O is another Shakespeare adaptation for teenagers which were rampant about this time (see 10 Things I Hate About You).  This one is an adaptation of the Bard’s tragedy Othello. We’re updated to current times and have the setting of Duke University’s basketball team. Hartnett plays the coach’s son who is jealous of the only black player on the team when the coach names him the best player and says he thinks of him as a son. So he hatches a plan of revenge to take him down and go after his girl. Martin Sheen is the dad, Mekhi Phifer is Othello, and one of the early 2000’s most dubious stars Julia Stiles is the girl. It received pretty mixed reviews, and didn’t become the cultural touchstone that 10 Things did.

Josh Hartnett - Black Hawk Down - 2001
Josh Hartnett – Black Hawk Down – 2001

Hartnett finished a very busy 2001 (which included some shorts) with a spot in Ridley Scott’s modern war epic Black Hawk Down. Hartnett is the lead, and is suitably marine-ish. The best thing about this movie is that it doesn’t turn war into entertainment. It puts you right in the midst of it. It hurts and it will shake you. In being visceral it becomes a little depersonalized. It follows a group of marines stranded in hostile territory after their helicopter goes down. you’re treated to the first-hand horrors of war and killing. The confusion and anger and fear of violence.

It’s definitely a bucket list item to be crossed off when working with Ridley Scott, he just didn’t do Hartnett the favor that Spielberg did Hanks in making the role important. The soldiers don’t much exist outside of their current predicament. Which works for the immersion, but lacks some depth. You can’t really criticize it because it would lose the power it has by changing. It was a hit with critics and so-so with audiences.

Josh Hartnett - 40 Days and 40 Nights - 2002
Josh Hartnett – 40 Days and 40 Nights – 2002

Hartnett had officially arrived after the landmark year of 2001. He followed it up by starring in this rom-com opposite Shannon Sossamon. Basically Hartnett has a bad breakup and decides to be celibate for Lent, and then meets the girl of his dreams. Dooope. He has to keep from sleeping with her despite her advances and interest. It didn’t get good reviews, but was a minor hit at the box office due to a small budget.

I personally have a problem with this film, as it features a female on male rape scenario. I know, hold your judgment. Hartnett awakes to being tied down and having this girl trying to mount him (you know guys, mornings) and it’s played for laughs. I get it. But if the position were reversed nobody would be laughing. I think if we’re going to tell Daniel Tosh he can’t make rape jokes, than it should go both ways. I don’t know, just a personal beef.

Josh Hartnett was a front-runner for the role of Superman
Josh Hartnett was a front-runner for the role of Superman in a proposed Batman Vs. Superman movie

This is as good a place as any to talk about the major role Hartnett turned down repeatedly. Wolfgang Petersen (who was a shell of the man who made Das Boot) was set to direct the film that we now have Zach Snyder and Ben Affleck bringing to us. Hartnett was offered the role of Superman. It would’ve been a 10 year, $100 million dollar contract requiring him to make 3 movies. This is the sort of thing Marvel does now, except they pay their A-list actors about 1-10% of what Hartnett was offered. Hartnett turned it down. Saying he didn’t want to make that commitment and that the role didn’t interest him.

According to Hartnett, he not only turned down Superman, but also the roles of Batman and Spider-man:

Spider-Man was something we talked about. Batman was another one. But I somehow knew those roles had potential to define me, and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to be labeled as Superman for the rest of my career. I was maybe 22, but I saw the danger.

Tobey Maguire was eventually cast as Spider-man.  The Batman vs. Superman project was killed in favor of separate movies featuring the characters  Christian Bale went on to star in Batman Begins and Brandon Routh played the Man of Steel in Superman Returns.

Josh Hartnett - Hollywood Homicide - 2003
Josh Hartnett – Hollywood Homicide – 2003

Like Colin Farrell’s The Recruit this is the type of movie that only gets made for the up-and-coming star. It relies solely on the star power of the actors to sell the picture to audiences, because the rest of it is not that good. Like Farrell and Pacino, it teams Josh Hartnett with the waning star power of the wax figure formerly known as Harrison Ford. It’s sort of like Be Cool meets Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with a detective story sending up Hollywood and the music scene, but it’s not as good as either of those (especially the latter). It features lots of rappers.

It’s one of those on paper it should be a runaway success. Ron Shelton directed lots of Kevin Costner fan favorites. But it didn’t turn out that way. Harrison Ford is grumpy and miscast, and looks bothered to even have to show up on set (as he does for anything in the last 20 years). Hartnett gives it his all, but you start to see the chinks in his armor (I’ll expand more later). He just doesn’t have the movie star charisma this role and movie requires. Apparently the two leads weren’t fond of each other either according to Yahoo Movies

The legendary Harrison Ford didn’t take too kindly to whippersnapper Josh Hartnett on the set of ‘Hollywood Homicide’. Ford reportedly referred to Harnett as a “punk”, with the young actor retaliating by calling the veteran “an old fart”. As a result the pair barely made eye contact during filming and continuously picked on each other at press junkets.

Critics disliked the film, and it bombed in the box office, barely making back half its budget.

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Josh Hartnett – Wicker Park – 2004

I’ve been surprised to learn while researching this article that Hartnett was always interested in being taken seriously as an actor. This is the “take me seriously” movie that he made with his newly received clout. It’s a remake of a 1996 French film, and it tells the story of a young man who is sure a girl is his long-lost love. So he stalks her, like you do. Then he meets another girl who says she’s her, but actually might know what really happened to her, and there is a fractured narrative device, and suspense and I’m confused.

Hartnett really believed in the movie, saying he didn’t believe there was a difference between Hollywood and foreign films. Unfortunately nobody believed in the film but him, as critics derided it as silly and boring, and it flopped in theaters despite a modest budget. Two strikes against Hartnett already.

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Josh Hartnett – Sin City – 2005

Working with Robert Rodriguez all those years ago pays off as Hartnett scores a small part in the comic book-noir film. It boasts a wonderful cast with Clive Owen, Benicio del Toro, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, and more. It’s a hyper-stylized film that mirrors the look of the panels like they were lifted off the pages. It’s a noir so it centers on a mystery and a missing girl. There are several other threads that play out simultaneously and all cross paths and tie together. It’s brilliant, really. Top 5 comic book movie ever.

It was a hit with critics who were awed by the revolutionary style, and successful in theaters due to a very modest budget. Unfortunately it didn’t do much for the careers of anyone involved as it’s a true ensemble piece and more about the story and style than the acting, despite the fact it’s mostly very good. A sequel is being shot now, that I can’t wait for.

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Josh Hartnett – Mozart and the Whale – 2005

This is the one film I watched of Hartnett’s and walked away impressed with his acting. It’s the sort of part an actor takes to prove that they can act, if their filmography up to that point hadn’t allowed it, and it works mostly, even if the film itself fits a little too comfortably into formula. Hartnett and Radha Mitchell play two people with Asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism that affects the ability to decode and understand social situations. They fall in love, but battle the condition as it manifests itself as a problem for them. Hartnett is restrained, honest, and vulnerable as his hapless character has his precious routines messed up by love. It’s heartfelt and strives to be genuine. It was underseen, didn’t really have a theatrical release, nor was it screened for major critics. So Hartnett’s work went unseen.

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Josh Hartnett – Lucky Number Slevin – 2006

Since Hollywood Homicide went so well, Hartnett decided to jump into the same situation, this time teaming up with Bruce Willis and his Wicker Park director, and they go for the Tarantino-pretender wheelhouse genre to disastrous results. It follows Slevin (which is a ridiculous name) played by Hartnett, who finds himself in the middle of a war between gangsters (played by Ben Kingsley and Stanley Tucci) as he is being hounded by Willis’ detective and Morgan Freeman is somewhere in there. And Hartnett’s hair. Oh boy.

There are lots of double crosses, lying, unreliable narrators, and over-the-top characters. It’s all too clever, too pleased with itself, winking and nodding at the audience, and never figures out how to be its own movie. Critics were mixed-to-negative and audiences were indifferent to the film. Steeeeeriiiiike three.

Josh Hartnett - The Black Dahlia - 2006
Josh Hartnett – The Black Dahlia – 2006

This old school noir from Brian de Palma based on a James Ellroy novel sounds great on paper. It’s one of the most famous unsolved mysteries, full of intrigue, and has a strong cast. Hartnett plays a former boxer turned cop opposite Aaron Eckhart. They become detectives and friends, although a love triangle emerges. They’re investigating the infamous black dahlia murders taking place in Hollywood in the 1940s. Liberties are taken with the story, but that’s to be expected.

De Palma’s version ran three hours and delighted James Ellroy when he saw it. However, the studio edited an hour out of the film, and that may explain why it feels rushed in certain areas and a little disjointed. That, or maybe the movie was always this way, it feels convoluted, overstuffed, and miscast. Hilary Swank is not a femme fatale. It fits with most of de Palma’s work, in that at times it is flat-out bad, but it’s rarely boring. Critics weren’t impressed and audiences weren’t enticed, and it belly-flopped into theaters.

Josh Hartnett - Resurrecting the Champ - 2007
Josh Hartnett – Resurrecting the Champ – 2007

A small film about a journalist who meets a homeless man who turns out to be a former boxing champion long believed dead. He interviews him, and ends up saving his career with the story. He also is touched by the story and reexamines his own life and relationship with his father. Unfortunately all is not what it seems. The reason to see this movie is for Samuel L. Jackson’s kinetic performance as the former boxing champ. He can be an incredibly gifted and talented actor when he so desires. He disappears completely into the role, with a soft high-pitched rasp for a voice. Hartnett plays the bland reporter whose story is muddled with sentimental melodrama from his family and newspaper moral dilemmas. Also it’s pretty formulaic, which turned critics off of everything but Jackson. The small movie never made a splash into theaters and faded pretty quickly.

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Josh Hartnett – 30 Days of Night – 2007

Things were looking pretty grim for Hartnett when he boarded David Slade’s adaptation of a graphic novel about a gang of vampires attacking a quiet Alaskan town during the 30 days that it is shrouded in darkness. Hartnett plays the sheriff of the town (his wife is co-sheriff) that is tasked with saving the day. It turns into a gory horror-actioner that rarely takes the pedal from the floor. Critics were mixed on the film and audiences turned it into a minor success. Enough of one to warrant a DTV sequel without Hartnett.

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Josh Hartnett – August – 2008

A dot-com drama that follows two brothers trying to keep their business afloat. Hartnett is the fast-talking and abrasive CEO of the company that is trying to hold it and his personal life together. It received bad reviews with one critic taking Hartnett to task

As usual, Hartnett exhibits the acting ability of linoleum; his performance would not be measurably changed if he lapsed into a coma halfway through.

David Bowie’s in it…

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Josh Hartnett – I Come With the Rain

Hartnett continues to try to find interesting projects with this foreign-produced film in which he plays an ex-cop turned private eye. He is hired to find the son of a billionaire which leads him into the seedy underground of Hong Kong. He quit the force over becoming unstable due to a serial killer that continues to haunt his memory. It’s a mystery thriller in a foreign locale. It also functions as a parable with large themes that it never seems to rise up to. It had a larger than expected budget, and bombed domestically and foreign. The reviews it did receive were mostly negative.

Josh Hartnett - Bunraku - 2010
Josh Hartnett – Bunraku – 2010

This film apparently sat on the shelf for years, and with good reason. I was sort of excited about this when it came out, I thought maybe it could be interesting. Bunraku is a type of Japanese puppetry. The tale is well-tread territory in basically a nameless man shows up to take revenge against a thug and teams up with others looking for revenge. It’s all style and no substance. It tries to use these crazy samurai battles (there are no guns in this feudal/futuristic Japan) as a sort of Fred Astaire dance number through the films.

Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, and Ron Perlman all show up in this international film and nobody fares well. It’s tiresome and tedious, the lighting and sets get boring and 2-d quickly. Reviewers tore apart the film saying

Extremely cool-looking in the manner of “Sin City,” but clumsily staged, slackly acted and mind-numbingly dull, Israeli director Guy Moshe’s English-language fantasy is set in a future when guns, and apparently coherent conversations, have been outlawed.

It should surprise no one that visually quirky, graphic-novelish, pulp-noir action flicks rarely come through the sausage machine intact.

Yikes. It failed to do business in this or any other alternate reality. A bust.

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Josh Hartnett – Stuck Between Stations – 2011

Hartnett showed up in small roles in a couple of direct to video films that nobody has seen or heard of.

Stuck Between Stations is a romance between two people who meet years after falling in love by chance, and have an odyssey in the underbelly of Minneapolis (what?).

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Josh Hartnett – Girl Walks Into a Bar – 2011

Girl Walks Into a Bar is a comedy of the vignette sort in which lots of strangers cross paths and fall in love.

Danny DeVito, Zachary Quinto, Alexis Bliedel, and more B and C-listers pepper the cast.

PENNY DREADFUL (2014)

Josh Hartnett - Penny Dreadful - 2014-2015
Josh Hartnett – Penny Dreadful – 2014-2015

In 2014, Hartnett co-starred alongside Eva Green and Timoth Dalton in the Showtime horror series, Penny Dreadful.

Writer John Logan has created a sort of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for TV featuring every iconic rights-free character that takes place in Victorian London. Hartnett plays Ethan, a mysterious American with a good heart and a dark past. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula, and more are players in the series.

Reviews for Penny Dreadful were positive and Showtime renewed the series for a second season based on strong ratings.

Logan is one of the best writers around right now. Seriously, check his IMDB. He’s great. So maybe Hartnett will become one of many actors to find a second home on TV during this television renaissance.

SINGULARITY, PARTS PER BILLION (2014)

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From a washed up director (Scarlet Letter), Singularity stars Hartnett in the midst of a riveting love story that takes place in two time periods on two continents. Sounds ambitious. Probably going DTV. Parts Per Billion is from a first time director and deals with 3 couples that might be torn apart by an event. Based on the actors involved it is likely another DTV project.

So, what the hell happened?

Hartnett rocketed onto the A-list with the looks of an action hero, if a little soft and boyish.  He was in his early twenties. He has never been the subject of any misbehavior or vicious rumors. He starred in a couple star-making features that bombed and Hollywood quickly discarded him. He continues to get work in the DTV field but his Hollywood days seem over. Hartnett had this to say about his fall from grace

“The roles I was being offered were not reflecting where I was at personally. After Black Hawk Down there was a real lull.

“Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles and I wanted to find more complex things.

“They just didn’t suit my taste so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.’ And for a while that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

“A lot of people felt jilted, my ex-agents and stuff like that. They felt like I wasn’t working with them and some studios, I guess, didn’t want to work with me because they felt I turned my back on these great things.

“But it wasn’t a personal issue with them, it only had to do with what I felt I wanted to do as an actor. I wanted to take some time and rework my thinking.

“So it just had to do with being able to pull back when I felt like the work wasn’t in line with what I wanted to do.”

I was surprised to learn he wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. He never struck me as the type on or off-screen. I’ll be bold and say I don’t think Hartnett is very good. His voice is a low baritone that is hard to modulate and emote through. It comes off frat-boyish. It doesn’t have the deep authority of Vin Diesel who uses it to good effect in action flicks. Hartnett wasn’t interested, except when he was when he took those roles. He also doesn’t have a great screen presence and isn’t particularly charming or charismatic. He’s often stiff as a block of wood. He kind of has Channing Tatum syndrome, he has the blank and plain good-looking model sort of looks, his face doesn’t emote much. He got typecast and didn’t like his type, and any time he played ball it backfired in the box office. It wrapped up quickly for him. He says he’s okay with that and wants to continue to find interesting work. Good luck to him.

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lebeau
Admin
10 years ago

Good article. I tweaked some of the box office info. I went especially in depth on Pearl Harbor which took in a lot of money but was actually a huge disappointment to Disney. It was supposed to make Hartnett A-list, but didn’t. If anything, I’d say it marked the beginning of the end for Affleck on the A-list. I would argue that Hartnett was never A-list. The expectation was there that he would be. He got a few lead roles that were intended to put him on the A-list. But he was never close to being a box office draw.… Read more »

Craig Hansen
Craig Hansen
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

My God, Pearl Harbor was trash. It was painfully obvious Disney was trying to recreate the massive success of Titanic. To call this the poor-man’s Titanic would be an insult to poor men. I agree that was the beginning of the end for Affleck right there, though that would be helped further along with more crud like Daredevil, Gigli and Paycheck. As for Hartnett, he was given several opportunities to become a big success, but honestly he just never had the acting chops or charisma to actually break through to the A-list. He was rather bland, and that one critic’s… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Craig Hansen

The idea for Pearl Harbor was clearly Titanic + Armageddon = Box Office records. Disney was counting on massive, massive worldwide record-shattering box office. So they didn’t hold back on the budget or the marketing. Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale were all going to be big stars. Success was seen as inevitable. But it turned out to be quite evitable. And Hartnett largely took the fall. It couldn’t be that the movie was a big, loud piece of crap. Audiences love big, loud pieces of crap. No the problem was Hartnett wasn’t a suitable leading man. And neither was Affleck. So… Read more »

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Yes, I was surprised that the animosity between Ford and Hartnett wasn’t mentioned in this write-up. I remember reading/hearing about the friction between the two of them after the movie had been filmed. While Ford had already fallen from the A-list himself, it could NOT have been good for Hartnett to let a beef start with a legend like Harrison.

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Liz

I’m actually planning to go back and brush up on that. I’ll probably add it in soon. These articles are never really done. I am constantly going back and adding interesting bits as I find them.

bygeorge (@bygeorgecs)
Reply to  lebeau

What was the issue between the two?

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago

“The legendary Harrison Ford didn’t take too kindly to whippersnapper Josh Hartnett on the set of ‘Hollywood Homicide’. Ford reportedly referred to Harnett as a “punk”, with the young actor retaliating by calling the veteran “an old fart”. As a result the pair barely made eye contact during filming and continuously picked on each other at press junkets.”

Craig Hansen
Craig Hansen
9 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Without having been there myself to see what happened on set, it’s hard to say 100% for sure who’s fault it is for their falling out during Hollywood Homicide. However, I have been a lifelong Harrison Ford fan, and over the years he has worked with countless actors and actresses and never once have I ever heard anybody bad mouth the guy or say he is difficult to work with, quite the opposite he has always comes off as a consummate professional. Instead of going to his trailer in between filming like most actors, Ford is usually on-set working out… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Craig Hansen

This is a story from a friend of a friend. So take it for what it is worth. But this friend of a friend was an assistant to a lot of actor’s and worked for Ford during this time. According to her, he was a pothead and an asshole. She specifically said her impression of him was that he was very unprofessional. But who knows. Maybe she caught him at a bad time. Also, Ford did tell Shia LaBeouf that he was a fucking idiot. Of course he was not wrong about that. But he does have a tendency to… Read more »

Craig Hansen
Craig Hansen
9 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I think Ford calling LaBeouf an idiot came a couple years after Crystal Skull released, where Shia publicly acknowledged the flaws of the 4th Indy film in an interview (especially him swinging on the vines with the monkeys through the jungle, yikes) and Ford took him to task for that, but yes in his later years Ford has become moreso of a “grumpy old man”. But Ford’s feud with Hartnett seems to be an isolated case over his 40+years career in film, as a lifelong Ford fan I’ve never really heard any other costars (besides Hartnett) call him difficult to… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Craig Hansen

You are exactly right about the Ford/LaBeuouf incident. I actually agree with everything Shia said about Indy 4. They did drop the ball. But I also agree with Ford for calling him out. You’re not supposed to say such things to the press. LaBeouf rose to fame largely on the back of Steven Spielberg productions. Publicly criticizing his work as a director is biting the hand that feeds him. It’s that kind of behavior that landed him on the What the Hell Happened poll and will land him an article here soon. Which brings me to my next point. Don’t… Read more »

jeffthewildman
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Pearl Harbor was a disaster of epic proportions. It ranks with Pluto Nash, Battlefield Earth and Judge Dredd on a worst movies of all-time list. Anyone could see that Disney thought it had another Titanic on its hands. But Titanic for all its faults at least tried. Pearl Harbor was simply a trite soap opera that reduced an important event in which thousands of people died as a backdrop for a friggin love story and screwed up most of the historical details in the process. If you want a Pearl Harbor movie, see Tora Tora Tora. It could be said… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  jeffthewildman

I remember screening Pearl Harbor just before it was released. The hype was immense. The theater was filled with girls who were either fans of Affleck or Hartnett. They would argue over who was dreamier. It was the exact audience Disney marketing was hoping for. The potential was there for the next wave of Leo Mania. Or the 2000 equivalent of Twihards. As the movie dragged on and on, you could just feel the excitement drain out of the room like air leaving a balloon. I checked out early on because the stilted dialogue and wooden acting was too much… Read more »

Shemp
10 years ago
Reply to  jeffthewildman

“Pearl Harbor” was one of the FEW movies that actually OFFENDED me…and I like South Park, Family Guy and the 3 Stooges (the REAL Stooges, though that recent movie-tribute wasn’t bad really)! It was a DECISIVE event in 20TH century American – and world – history and it was turned into a silly soap opera with on-autopilot or bad acting and terrible dialogue. Quoth Alec Baldwin: “We are going to Japan — and we are going to BOMB THEM!” NAW, you’re gonna ring their doorbell and run away! I like Baldwin but for a guy that gets on his high-horse… Read more »

lebeau
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10 years ago
Reply to  dwmcguff

I’m also going to say, I don’t think he was ever all that invested in it. Certain people will themselves to be stars. Others, like say Jason Patric, actively avoid it. Hartnett, to me, is more like a Patric than a Tom Cruise in terms of temperment. Nothing like Patric in terms of talent. So if you have a guy who doesn’t especially want to be a star, isn’t cut out to be a star, and yet Hollywood tries to make him a star, this is what you get.

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

I remember reading on more than one ocassion about Hartnett’s dislike for the LA/Hollywood scene and how uncomfortable the attention and (short-lived) fame made him. Sometime in the middle of his “career”, he moved back to Minnesota (where he hailed from) and away from the movie mecca. While it seems he never had much talent (the only movie of his I ever saw was 30 Days of Night), that probably did not help his chances, either.

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

(Hit “send” too early. 🙂 ) So, I agree with you in that I don’t think Hartnett ever really wanted to be a “star”, which seeems to have worked out for him, perhaps, more than he wanted. He seemed pretty intent on just staying a “regular guy.”

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Liz

I mean, I don’t think being an A-list movie star was something he was trying to avoid. You don’t sign up to star in a movie like Pearl Harbor if you don’t want fame and fortune. But I also don’t think he was as driven as a lot of big name stars. I think he figured being in Pearl Harbor would give him the clout to do whatever suited him. But I doubt he was all that upset when it fell short of expectations.

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

Well, I think that Hartnett was trying to get noticed for his craft, but once he realized that meant complete loss of anonymity and total scrutiny, his gears changed. If he was just after fame and fortune, it seems that he would have jumped at the chance to do the Superman franchise. In the full interview that was quoted on the last page, he still refuses to move back to LA, stating, “The more you stay out of the spotlight, the more believable you are as an actor.” I tend to agree with him on that. When you know TOO… Read more »

lebeau
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10 years ago
Reply to  Liz

Good points. And by any reasonable measurement, Hartnett is extremely successful. Most actors would kill for a shot at “a Showtime thing”. It’s only through the admittedly warped lens of WTHH (where we focus on the A-list to the exclusion of everything else) that Hartnett comes up short.

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  lebeau

What I meant by a “success” is finding himself in the position of being regarded as a credible, capable, respected actor (like, say, DiCaprio) and maybe even being sought after by movie makers. But, even by another definition, it can’t be argued that he’s struggled QUITE a bit in the past 7 years, about half of his career (hence the write up, right? 🙂 ). Though, yes, the term “success” is subjective. And when I said "just a Showtime thing", I didn't mean it as "Oh, just a show on the Showtime Channel." I was somehow mistaking Showtime with both… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Liz

Oh sure.
I am frequently accused of not giving actors credit for continuing to work. So whenever possible, I feel the need to acknowledge that all of the subjects of WTHH are successful beyond any reasonable expectation. They just aren’t as successful as they used to be/might have been.
Wasn’t trying to come down on you. Really just covering myself for the criticism I know will come. Not that this will help. Most of my critics don’t read the articles much less the comments section.

Mastro
Mastro
10 years ago
Reply to  Liz

I buy that- until I read his list of girlfriends- Scarlett Johansson, Rihanna, Amanda Seyfried, and Penelope Cruz. Sure- he’s my hero- but if wanted to stay low- key- he could date/marry a non-starlet like Matt Damon or Christian Bale.
If he wants privacy- sorry- but dating A-listers will attract cameras.

Mastro
Mastro
10 years ago
Reply to  Mastro

Actually- I might have hit on something here. If he has enough money to house/feed himself- and he’s dating our dream dates- why does he need to grovel before Hollywood?
He might be a genius!

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Mastro

He never struck me as the genius type. But if he managed all of this on purpose, there is no other explanation.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  dwmcguff

Aren’t there rumors out there that Josh Hartnett got a bad rep for being an unreliable drug addict (maybe the “rock-n-roll” lifestyle in Hollywood was too much for him), who let drugs get in the way of filming his movie parts? That may (of course, if its true) stalled his career more than anything else. Living in England may have further slowed down his career. After managing his alleged addiction, he got back and started small and got good press for his early comeback roles and high praise for “Penny Dreadful”. There’s also insider gossip that from a bit costar… Read more »

Terrecne Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

This may be a bit of a stretch but, is it still a fair argument to say that “Pearl Harbor” may have actually played a big part in Josh Hartnett’s career going on the downturn? I think that as everybody seems to know, Michael Bay pretty much intended “Pearl Harbor” on being his version of “Titanic”. Both movies told a fictional story about a love triangle during a real life tragic event. Prior to “Pearl Harbor”, all of Josh Harnett’s leading films tend to be small budget 15–20 million movies, and had “Pearl Harbor” been a massive box office like… Read more »

frug
frug
10 years ago

True story.
In my high school year book one girl said that Pearl Harbor was her favorite movie of the year because it “taught me so much about World War II”.

Liz
Liz
10 years ago
Reply to  frug

LOL, Frug. 😀

jeffthewildman
10 years ago
Reply to  frug

Quite funny. Envisioning a future where she’s a history teacher teaching students that Abraham Lincoln was our greatest president because he fought vampires.
A friend said she’d never seen Pearl Harbor. But wanted to. I told her “If you want to see a real movie about Pearl Harbor watch Tora Tora Tora”.

Mastro
Mastro
10 years ago
Reply to  frug

well- you do learn that the Japanese bombed Peal Harbor- I got it wrong because of Animal House.

Joboots
Joboots
10 years ago

Think anyone can envision Josh playing a character like Jared Leto’s Oscar-winning turn in
Dallas Buyers Club,perhaps????

lebeau
Admin
10 years ago
Reply to  Joboots

No. But a year ago, I had forgotten Jared Leto existed.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

40 Days and 40 Nights (2002): http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/494748/40-days-nights-2002 Post by KAMALARAMBO on Mar 17, 2014 at 5:25pm I never watched the full movie until last night, but was wondering what people thought of it? It had some decently funny moments, but nothing really hilarious. Also, as for the actors did anyone else think Josh Hartnett would have been a bigger star than he turned out being. Also Shannyn Sossamon was not nearly as hot as I remembered. Post by Koda89, Master Ms. Fortune on Mar 17, 2014 at 5:52pm Seriously. Josh Hartnett was definitely being positioned in the very late 90’s-very… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Josh Hartnett: http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/466473/josh-hartnett Post by Munkie91087 on Feb 25, 2013 at 9:09am I always referred to him as “Not Matt Damon.” Seems like the actor you’d get if you wanted, but weren’t able to get Matt Damon. Post by mizerable on Feb 25, 2013 at 11:27am He’s not a very versatile actor, he was the Channing Tatum of 10 years ago. He’s still doing smaller roles, but the world has moved on. Post by salsashark on Feb 25, 2013 at 12:19pm Hartnett was ridiculously underwhelming and uncharismatic. Absolutely one of my least favorite actors of that period. The man was… Read more »

Pedro de Pacas
Pedro de Pacas
9 years ago

Please write an article on Julia Stiles, if only to discuss how horrible she was! “the early 2000s most dubious star” lol!

Mastro
Mastro
9 years ago
Reply to  Pedro de Pacas

She nailed being an annoying wife in Silver Linings Playbook. Of course- that’s basically her only role.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Mastro

10 Movie Stars Who Could Really, Really Use A Hit Right Now: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/10-Movie-Stars-Who-Could-Really-Really-Use-Hit-Right-Now-40183-p7.html Julia Stiles I am all for former leading actors taking smaller roles in order to create a different kind of career with a supporting bend to it, but there’s a difference between being the third lead and being the seventh lead, as Stiles was in last year’s brilliant Silver Linings Playbook. Even more troubling, she hasn’t had any other role of any kind in anything that made any real dent at the box office since 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, unless you count her one season guest role… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Pedro de Pacas

I had previously made a suggestion for Julia Stiles in the comments section for Kirsten Dunst’s WTHHT article: http://www.ehollywoodnonsense.com/?p=548 Julia Stiles broke out into the mainstream with her widely acclaimed performance in 1998’s 10 Things I Hate About You. Just how acclaimed was she? She walked home that year with an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the Chicago Film Critics Award for most promising actress of the year and film critic Adina Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post, even called her “a young, serious looking Diane Lane!” If praise like that doesn’t make phones start ringing at CAA… Read more »

lebeau
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9 years ago
Reply to  Pedro de Pacas

My wife was a big Julia Stiles fan back in the day. She’s been someone I have considered writing up. But then she popped up in something every time I was about to do so.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

Re: Who is Blacklisted in Hollywood and why (bring the tea):
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/832224-Who-is-Blacklisted-in-Hollywood-and-why-(bring-the-tea)?p=20961045&viewfull=1#post20961045
J.u.l.i.a. S.t.i.l.e.s.
Her career was about to take off again after her stint on Dex/ter (she even received a golden globes nomination for her work) but she got blacklisted after her on-set affair the Dex/ter came out. Word on the street is that JenCarpen.ter (scorned (ex)wife of Dexter) badmouthed her all over town and got her blacklisted. And now, the best the girl can do is a low-rate web series and Lifetime movies. So sad.

brokencandy
brokencandy
9 years ago

I’d be suspicious of rumors and loose talk. You seem to severely overestimate Jennifer Carpenter’s power in Hollywood. She’s a relatively minor actress in terms of clout and is less famous than Julia Stiles, and cheaters are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. No one cares if you’re a slut or an adulterer, they only care if you’re a box office draw. if people will pay to see you, that’s all anybody cares about. If Julia Styles had an affair with Michael C. Hall, it’s not publicly well known enough for bad press to drive casting directors away from Julia… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Career Prospectus: Josh Hartnett: http://www.laineygossip.com/Career-Prospectus-Josh-Hartnett/28635?categoryId=1290 We’ve received several requests for a Josh Hartnett career prospectus, which makes sense as one of the first things that comes up when you Google “Josh Hartnett” is “Josh Hartnett career over”, followed by “whatever happened to Josh Hartnett”. Apparently, this is a question occupying many minds. And he’s a great case study for several issues facing actors, which makes him a quintessential career prospectus subject. So let’s take a look at the factors that sunk Josh Hartnett. Or, as I like to call him, Proto-Orlando Bloom. The first problem facing Hartnett is Leading Man… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Josh Hartnett Explains Why He Nearly Disappeared from Hollywood: “I Didn’t Trust Anyone”: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=690668 Look who’s back! Josh Hartnett recently opened up to Details magazine in its May 2014 issue why he suddenly went from rapidly rising Hollywood heartthrob nearly a decade ago, to low-key indie actor. Much of it, according to the star, was because he simply couldn’t handle fame. “I was on the cover of every magazine,” Hartnett, 35, told the mag. “I couldn’t really go anywhere. I didn’t feel comfortable in my own skin. I was alone. I didn’t trust anyone,” the Pearl Harbor actor confessed of… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

8 Great Actors Whose Bad Experiences Caused Them To Quit Hollywood: http://whatculture.com/film/8-great-actors-whose-bad-experiences-caused-quit-hollywood.php/3 Realizing That Movie Stardom Can Be “Uncomfortable” – Josh Hartnett If Teen Choice Award nominations are anything to go by when it comes to judging an actor’s ability, then Josh Hartnett might well be the greatest actor of his generation. Fortunately great acting isn’t measured by the Teen Choice Awards, but fortunately for Hartnett his acting ability is considerably better than just being a handsome face which gets the girls swooning. After a string of hits early on in his career, from The Faculty and The Virgin Suicides… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

10 Actors Hollywood Tried And Failed To Make Happen: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/10-actors-hollywood-tried-and-failed-to-make-happen-20130731?page=3#blogPostHeaderPanel Josh Hartnett Attempts At The Big Time: “Pearl Harbor”(2001), “O” (2001), “Black Hawk Down” (2001),”40 Days and 40 Nights”(2002), “Hollywood Homicide”(2003), “Sin City” (2005), “The Black Dahlia” (2006) “Lucky Number Slevin”(2006) “30 Days of Night” (2007) Where Did It All Go Wrong? Thinking about Josh Hartnett, which we do only rarely—that’s part of the problem—it’s hard to pigeonhole him into one of the other models of nearly-man: his big break, “Pearl Harbor” may have been a horrible turgid waste of an afternoon but it made money, so he’s no Taylor… Read more »

Craig Hansen
Craig Hansen
9 years ago

Interetsing that Josh Hartnett was offered the role of Superman a decade ago – I just don’t see it myself. I think he would’ve been a poor choice as Superman, Hartnett isn’t that good of an actor honestly and doesn’t seem to have enough screen presence, charisma or gravitas to carry off such a major superhero role. At least he had the sense to say no, though for different reasons.

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Craig Hansen

Hartnett was a bad fit for Superman. I give him credit for realizing that. As opposed to Nic Cage who went so far as costume (and wig) fittings.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Craig Hansen

The irony if you ask me, is that something like that ultimately happened w/ Brandon Routh, who may have had somewhat of the “look” and “sound” of a young Christopher Reeve, but not the overall screen presence, charisma or gravitas to back up playing Superman.

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago

Routh was saddled with a terrible movie. I’m not sure Christopher Reeve could have saved that one. And he more or less saved Superman III. So that’s saying something.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  Craig Hansen

Josh Hartnett Regrets Turning Down Christopher Nolan’s Batman Role: http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/861307-Josh-Hartnett-Regrets-Turning-Down-Christopher-Nolan%E2%80%99s-Batman-Role Josh Hartnett’s career hit its apex around 2001, the year in which the now 36-year-old — who’d built up indie cred with such films as The Virgin Suicides and The Faculty — played the lead in two mega-hyped blockbusters: Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor and Ridley Scott’sBlack Hawk Down. Hartnett could get a meeting with any big-name filmmaker in the years that followed, at one point sitting down with Christopher Nolan as the writer-director was prepping the game-changing Batman Begins. But as Hartnett reveals in a new interview with Playboy’s Stephen… Read more »

Shemp
9 years ago

re: A lot of people felt jilted,” Hartnett said in the UK’s Daily Record in 2011.
I think they’ll get over it, Josh.
Maybe your movies didn’t have big enough box office and/or you’re yet just another pretty-boy actor, a Troy Donahue or Tab Hunter for out time.

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Blink And You Miss ‘Em: Celebs Who Were Famous For, Like, Five Minutes: http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2014-05-13/celebs-whose-fame-didnt-last/ Josh Hartnett was the early aughts version of Matt Dillon — dark, brooding, and pin-up sexy. He made schlock like The Faculty and that Halloween remake totally watchable. We swooned over him in The Virgin Suicides and Pearl Harbor (the only good part of that clunker). And then, he evaporated. In 2010, Hartnett briefly resurfaced to produce Kid Cudi’s fabulous “Pursuit of Happiness” video — and there were rumors that he was offered Superman — but it wasn’t until this year, when he landed a starring… Read more »

George
George
9 years ago

So he suffered from the Keanu Reeves effect.

Shemp
9 years ago
Reply to  George

Meaning…?

Angelus
Angelus
9 years ago

I think the last paragraph of the article was uncalled for. Fine, Hartnett never made it to the so-called A-list, but he was a serious contender for it. Some of the movies that you trash like Lucky Number Slevin and his later works like Girl Walks into a Bar and Parts per Billion are actually very charming and watchable. I totally believe him when he says he wanted complex roles and walked away from the cliche heroic roles because he did not want to go that path. I think he is a good, underrated actor, and maybe TV will bring… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Angelus

This entry was written by DWMCGUFF and not by me. So credit and blame where it is due. Having said that, I don’t think the last paragraph was “uncalled for” at all. The author shared his low opinion of Hartnett’s overall acting skill. Frankly, I share a lot of that opinion. A lot of people do. Obviously, you do not and that’s terrific. But I don’t think the author crossed any lines here. He even wished Hartnett good luck. So, what’s so objectionable? I don’t totally believe Hartnett when he says he walked away from Hollywood. That’s a line used… Read more »

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)
Reply to  lebeau

7 Actors Who Were Expected To Make It Big But Didn’t!
http://www.fame10.com/entertainment/7-actors-who-were-expected-to-make-it-big-but-didnt/6/

  1. Josh Hartnett

A decade ago, Josh Hartnett’s career was on the rise. He appeared in a number of Hollywood films including “The Faculty,” “The Virgin Suicides,” “Black Hawk Down” and “Pearl Harbor.” However, after taking a role in “Black Dahlia,” which was a critical and financial failure, he has rarely been seen on the big (or small) screen. According to Hartnett, it was his choice to take a leave of absence from Hollywood, but we think his career was pretty much over before that decision was made.

Erik
Erik
9 years ago

He is brlliant in the Penny Dreadful series!

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  Erik

I really need to watch that.

shitbrick
shitbrick
9 years ago

u think if walker never died he would be on this list cause with exception of fast and faurious his other work was flopping

shitbrick
shitbrick
9 years ago

dennis quaid should on the actors expected to make a big from what i heard he was a rising star in 80s after breaking away and right stuff then just flopped out day after tommorw was a smash it made money he was lead in but didnt capitalize on the opportunity made more crap then gi joe came big hit made more flops he only a few hits bad resume still compared to patric quaid is an a list

brokencandy
brokencandy
9 years ago

Ah! But Penny Dreadful is excellent, and Josh Hartnett is as solid as anyone in the cast. It’s the right part for him, I think- it utilizes both his conventionally masculine appearance and aura of underlying sensitivity and gives him room to stretch without stretching himself too thin- his character is well loved. I think he can indeed act- given the right material . He’s not excellent, but he’s better than you give him credit for. He’s sort of diet Josh Brolin- I don’t mean that as dismissive as it sounds. I mean he’s got a similar look and vibe,… Read more »

lebeau
Admin
9 years ago
Reply to  brokencandy

I agree. Penny Dreadful is the perfect vehicle for Hartnett. A little age has deepened his screen presence. He’s no longer just a good looking boy. There’s some world-weariness behind his performance and it suits him.
I didn’t actually write this entry, but I do need to change the section on PD a little now that the first season has proven to be a success.

shitbrick
shitbrick
9 years ago

he never reached a list going by the rules if pearl harbour was a hit it would not count anways causes it was on afflecks name he is like kutcher he puts his name out there but he dosent have the box office recits to back it up none of his leading roles made money

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

Future of Movie Stars: Who Will Shine? Who Will Fade Away?
http://forums.previously.tv/topic/7750-future-of-movie-stars-who-will-shine-who-will-fade-away/page-6#entry530183
I’ve heard rumors that Hartnett has been unprofessional and horribly unlikeable when the cameras weren’t rolling, which may have contributed to his disappearance. I don’t see Channing Tatum having any difficulties along those lines.

Leo
Leo
8 years ago

Bad Movie Beatdown: Hollywood Homicide
http://blip.tv/film-brain/bad-movie-beatdown-hollywood-homicide-2483405
A buddy cop “comedy” that’s about anything BUT a homicide!

Leo
Leo
8 years ago

Nostalgia Critic: Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpoOj6TFzQ
Behold, the Passion of the Bay!

Terrence Clay (@TMC1982)

What Happened To Josh Hartnett? What is He Doing Now? http://gazettereview.com/2015/06/what-happened-to-josh-hartnett-what-is-he-doing-now/ You might remember Josh Hartnett as a stoic soldier from blockbusters Pearl Harbor or Blackhawk Down. Maybe you remember him better as the brooding teen bad boy from The Faculty, O, or The Virgin Suicides. Hartnett starred in dozens of major roles at the turn of the millennium and mostly faded into the background after that. The young Hollywood dark horse was even featured as Giorgio Armani’s “face of beauty” at one point, so where did he go? Hartnett struggled to break into acting in New York before relocating… Read more »

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