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Adventure Films Star of the Last Ten Years Who.....
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Most of these people, as will turn clear upon reading this list, appeared in adventure films with paranormal elements, so this topic fitsin to Horror and Sci-Fi of Recent Decades.
http://www.Jabootu.com/vcfebohthree.htm
Towards the end of the article above, the writer points out how many adventure film stalwarts of the 1980's (e.g. Van Damme, Chuck Norris) no longer have their films released in theaters. So, I decided to make of a list of people who starred in adventure films in the last ten years that have made it into theaters.
I tried to have the list include people who either appeared in many such films or who appeared in a sequel to a film that they had appeared in within roughly the last ten years.
So Antonia Banderas squeeks by since his first Zorro film came out in 1998 and the sequel came out in 2005. I do not include Sylvester Stallone, though, since his only recent adventure film (as opposed to a sports film and other than his appearance in the Spy Kids franchise and the remake of Get Carter) to reach theaters includes Rambo, a sequel to a film released almost two decades earlier.
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Some people feel Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruiseprobably remain the closest things to '80s-style action stars, and they alternate big action flicks with other sorts of pictures. [Note that Cruise's contribution to the genre lies mostly in Legend, Mission Impossible 1-3, and other films that go for a PG-13. Reeves has made some R-rated films such as Constantine, Speed, and The Matrix, so that may make him resemble a 1980's adventure film star more to some.]
Other prominent adventure film stars of extremely recent years include
Orlando Bloom for his Pirates of the Caribbean and Tolkien films,
Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man,
Hugh Jackman in four films as Wolverine (he also appeared in Van Helsing)
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter (six films in less than ten years; Orlando Bloom has started to look over this shoulder)
Brendan Fraser in The Mummy and GI Joe,
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/the Batman in two films,
Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in two films (including The Incredible Hulk)
Hayden Christensen in two Star Wars prequels and Jumper
Antonio Banderas in a Zorro sequel
the Star Wars: Next Generation Cast
Matt Damon as Bourne in three films
Jennifer Garner as Elektra in two films (with Ben Affleck having a substantial role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in the first and appearing in a cameo deleted from the theatrical version of the latter film)
Ron Perlman as Hellboy
the Fantasic Four cast
Jason Statham in the Transporter (as well as the two Crank films)
Vin Diesel in Fast and the Furious
Dwayne Johnson as the Scorpion King in the Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King (a straight to DVD sequel did not feature him)
Wesley Snipes as Blade (three films, the first came out in 1998, close enough for my purposes)
Question; has Cage solidified that he will return in Ghost Rider 2?
Looking at this list, only the Bourne films and a few others seem to squarely fit into conventional, non-paranormal thriller categories. However, even they forwent the R-rating. Also of note, only the Blade films and Crank 1-2 received R-ratings of the list above, near as I can tell.
I forgot to mention Will Smith in Men in Black, though the first entry in that series arrived in 1997.
I also noticed that many of these films I mentioned adapted pre-existing material. PG-13 film series have started to plan things out more, as in MVL's build-up to the Avengers film. Sadly, R-rated film series tended not to do this. Most R-rated adventure films that I can think of that adapted another source came from singleton novels instead of long-running novel series with multiple entries. Most attempts to make R-rated private eye novel series into film series have never gone past a first movie. The much anticipated film version of Mack Bolan, the Executioner never came out, and in light of the trend against R-rated adventure films, I guess it never will. The Penetrator has a film version in the works from Farmhouse Films, but I do not expect an unironic version. Ernest Tidyman did write quite a few Shaft sequel novels, and they made four Shaft movies over 29 years, but that seems the exception. |
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