Will Smith He has had the affection of the public for most of his career, but that has not prevented him from accumulating several failures throughout his career. During the 90s, the most talked about was ‘Wild Wild West’, but the truth is that two decades later there was a movie that crashed even more big at the box office. Its title: ‘Gemini’.
A project that took too many turns
finally led by ang lee‘Geminis’ was a project that spent 20 years going around Hollywood, so at different times of it the names of Tony Scott, Curtis Hanson and Joe Carnahan to direct it. On the other hand, for the leading role, the names of Harrison Ford, Chris O’Donnell, Mel Gibson, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Clint Eastwood or Jon Voight before Smith ended up being hired.
‘Geminis’ tells the story of a veteran contract killer who decides to retire after an order that does not go as planned. However, it will not be easy for him to lead a peaceful life from then on, especially when he appears a clone his much younger with the mission to kill him.
On paper, ‘Geminis’ was a golden opportunity for Lee to delve deeper into the technological advances shown in the estimable ‘Billy Lynn’. The latter was the first film shot with technology HFR at 120 frames per second, with the added complication of using in 3D, and it was an undisputed flop at the box office. Surely at Paramount they were counting on applying that to a science fiction movie with a strong presence of action scenes that would prevent that, but at the moment of truth the fiasco at the box office was even greater.
The estimated losses of ‘Geminis’ during its passage through theaters were 111 million dollars, a figure that only a handful of titles have exceeded throughout the history of cinema. The fact that Smith’s digital rejuvenation wasn’t quite successful sure played a role, but in the end the movie was just bad with a script that so many people had gotten their hands on that it was never quite clear what exactly was going on. I wanted to be.
Besides, another fact that played very against him was the release date chosen by Paramountas it hit theaters the week after ‘Joker’ and the DC movie starring joaquin phoenix kept killing it In addition, the more familiar public chose that weekend to see ‘The Addams Family’, so ‘Geminis’ ended up condemned to a discreet third place at the United States box office and then it was losing gas at a forced march.
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