‘Lost City Of D’ Cast Now Includes Daniel Radcliffe As The Villain
By Chris Evangelista/March 19, 2021 4:30 pm EST
Deadline broke the news that Daniel Radcliffe has joined the Lost City of D cast as the film’s villain. While the title makes one think of the great, underseen film The Lost City of Z, this rom-com is aiming instead to make one wistful for the days of Romancing the Stone. The Lost City of D story follows “a reclusive romance novelist (Sandra Bullock) who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model (Channing Tatum) until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.”
Like I said: this storyline is very similar to Romancing the Stone, the Robert Zemeckis movie about a romance novelist who ends up in the middle of a dangerous adventure in the jungle. The key difference is that Stone had the novelist working with, and falling for, a rogueish mercenary, whereas here the romance novelist is teaming-up with her cover model. Still, it’s so similar that I’m wondering if someone, somewhere, is going to end up taking this project to court for plagiarism.
In any case, it’s nice to see Radcliffe continue to take interesting, unconventional parts. He probably could’ve hunkered down into more generic leading man roles after Harry Potter, but instead, he’s leaned into quirkier things, like playing a farting corpse in Swiss Army Man and playing a gun with guns literally nailed into his hands in Guns Akimbo (side-note: Guns Akimbo is kind of a crappy movie, but Radcliffe really commits and gives it his all, and for that, I applaud him).
