Anaconda
Short description
Childhood friends Doug and Griff experience a mid-life crisis that motivates them to travel to the Amazon rainforest. Their goal is to produce a remake of their favorite movie from their youth, Anaconda. However, their chaotic production turns into a fight for survival when a real giant snake appears, transforming their film set into a deadly trap.
The film was directed by Tom Gormican, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Etten. This project follows Gormican's previous directorial efforts, That Awkward Moment from 2014 and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent from 2022. The movie stars Jack Black as Doug McCallister and Paul Rudd as Ronald Griffin Jr., alongside Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, and Selton Mello.
Produced by Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment, and Fully Formed Entertainment, the movie had a budget of 45 million USD and earned 135 million USD worldwide. Audience reception is mixed, with a rating of 5.6/10 based on 40,000 votes on IMDb and 5.8/10 from 1,461 votes on TMDB. These scores are slightly higher than the rating given by film critics, which stands at 5.3/10 from 155 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director and screenwriter Tom Gormican offered Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal roles in this film while working with them on the crime comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” (2022). Pascal liked the script but had to decline the offer due to commitments to other projects. Cage decided the film would be too similar to “The Unbearable Weight…”, and also refused. Gormican cast Paul Rudd and repeated the offer to Cage. The actor requested that his character be made more like John Voight’s hero in Luis Llosa’s action film “Anaconda” (1997). The studio refused to accommodate him, and the role went to Jack Black.
- While preparing for filming, director Tom Gormican and screenwriter Kevin Etten rewatched all the films in the “Anaconda” franchise, including the television movies. The original script contained references to the 2004 adventure action film “Anaconda 2: The Hunt for the Smaragdine Orb” (Dwight H. Little), but they were later removed.
- The location where the finale was supposed to be filmed became unavailable, so the ending had to be changed. Even Ice Cube’s cameo was reworked. Another location was found and prepared, but a devastating hurricane struck, ruining all the preparations, and the set had to be rebuilt from scratch.
- Initially, John Voight and Owen Wilson from the cast of Luis Llosa’s “Anaconda” (1997) were supposed to participate in the project, but this idea was abandoned – according to Tom Gormican, mainly because their characters died in the first film. Other characters from the first film appeared on screen because this reboot was a sequel to the fictional film mentioned in the plot. In any case, Voight’s character in the 2025 film is simply mentioned.
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