Why film stars are getting older - and what it tells us about Hollywood’s new struggle
msn.comVariety during the Cannes film festival. The argument goes that, while there are plenty of veteran stars still busily creaking out commercially tempting film fodder, there are precious few equivalently bankable talents from the newer generation waiting in the wings.
And this is a looming problem for the film industry. Harrison Ford, for example, may still just about look the part of Indiana Jones (thanks in no small measure to the wonders of de-ageing tech), in the Cannes festival hot ticket Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
But he’s 80 years old. How much longer can he cope with the demanding and rigorous shooting schedule of a big-budget action movie?Elsewhere in Cannes, in the Marché du Film – the market in which new film products are funded and hawked to distributors and financiers – Variety reports that the hottest titles include a reboot of the 1993 Rocky Mountains-set heist thriller Cliffhanger, which sees the film’s original star, the now 76-year-old Sylvester Stallone, returning to scramble up the side of yet another precipitous peak.
Other titles available include Breakout, an action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (75) and That’s Amore, a romcom that is set to star John Travolta (69) and John Travolta’s hair implants (age undetermined).
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