FARRELL EYED OSCAR GLORY FOR FLOP ALEXANDER
COLIN FARRELL was stunned his movie ALEXANDER was a box office flop - bec= ause he was convinced the film was heading for Oscar glory.
The Irish actor played the ancient Greek conqueror in the 2004 Oliver S= tone project, co-starring Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer.
It was panned by movie critics and only managed to recuperate one quart= er of its $155 million (=C2=A397 million) budget back at the U.S. box off= ice.
But Farrell was shocked by the movie’s reception - as he and his co-sta= rs were sure it would sweep the board at the 2005 Academy Awards.
He tells Britain’s Total Film magazine, "We were splitting the atom on = Alexander - we were really doing something that had never been done and w= e were telling an epic tale that would harp back to the days of Cecil B. = DeMille and we were going to get 12 Oscar nominations. In our heads. That= ’s one case of where we completely misjudged the situation.
"It was a very big story and I know that Oliver was very rushed to do a= cut, but for me it just failed gloriously. It just kept in step with the= magnitude of Alexander’s ambition and ego." And Farrell is still upset his dyed blond hair wasn’t properly maintain= ed for the duration of the shoot: "That was unfortunate. We f**ked that u= p. A $150 million film and we couldn’t sort out my roots."
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