Viggo Mortensen Calls Out Amazon’s “Greed” For Putting ‘Thirteen Lives’ On Streaming; Explains Why He Avoids Franchise Roles Since ‘Lord Of The Rings’
deadline.comViggo Mortensen is calling out Amazon for its handling of the Ron Howard film Thirteen Lives, which he starred in alongside Colin Farrell.
In a new interview, the actor called out the studio for scrapping the global release of the Thai cave rescue thriller to push it to their Prime Video streaming service. “They were going to put it out worldwide in many, many, many thousands of theaters,” Mortensen told Vanity Fair. “Then Amazon bought MGM, initially promised to respect the deal that MGM had made with Ron Howard, and then they went back on that.
Basically you saw that movie for a week in Chicago, New York and LA, London, and that was that. Then you had the streaming, which I thought was really sad.
It’s a really well-shot movie.” Mortensen said this was “the first time I’d worked on a huge-budget movie in a long time” and called Thirteen Lives “a really good movie,” which opened in select theaters on July 29, 2022. “They have all their excuses for why they did that, but it comes down to greed,” he added. “How much money do you need?
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