The Lost City
Short description
Loretta Sage is a successful romance novelist who has become a recluse while writing about exotic locations, with her books' covers featuring the handsome model Alan as the hero Dash. During a promotional tour for her latest novel, Loretta is abducted by Abigail Fairfax, an eccentric billionaire who believes she can decipher ancient inscriptions and lead him to the treasure of a lost city from her story. Alan witnesses the kidnapping, and hoping to prove he can be a real-life hero rather than just a cover model, he sets out with Loretta's assistants to rescue her. Stranded together in the jungle, the unlikely pair must work as a team to survive the wilderness and find the treasure.
The film is an action adventure comedy directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee, who also wrote the screenplay with Dana Fox. Sandra Bullock, who also produced through her company Fortis Films alongside Liza Chasin and Seth Gordon, stars as Loretta, with Channing Tatum as Alan and Daniel Radcliffe as Fairfax. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brad Pitt and Oscar Nunez appear in supporting roles. It was released in March 2022 and runs 112 minutes.
Produced on a budget of 68 million dollars, it earned 193 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.1 out of 10 from 176,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.4 from 4,133 votes. A film critics' rating stands at 6.4 from 272 reviews, putting professional and audience assessments close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene with the chair and wheelbarrow was filmed in one take.
- Brad Pitt (who played Jack) and Sandra Bullock (who played Loretta) have both been in the film industry for over 30 years, but they had never starred in a film together before. Bullock only made a cameo appearance in David Leitch’s action comedy "Bullet Train" (2022), starring Pitt, after which she befriended Pitt, and he eventually accepted an invitation to join the cast of the adventure comedy directed by Aaron and Adam Nee.
- The characters' tiny vehicle is not a car at all, but a quadricycle with a closed body and an engine displacement of 217 cubic centimeters. It's called the Bajaj Qute and is produced by the Indian company Bajaj Auto. Its maximum speed is 70 km/h.
- Channing Tatum (who played Alan and Dash) later recounted that the scene with nudity, where Sandra Bullock's character peels leeches off him, was filmed on the second day of shooting. Tatum and Bullock barely knew each other at the time. The scene was probably shot after 50 takes because Tatum couldn't deliver his lines without bursting into laughter.
- The film is a kind of remake of Robert Zemeckis's adventure comedy 'Romancing the Stone' (1984), and the name of the book tour – 'Romancing the Pages' – was a reference to that film.
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