Director Joe Carnahan Isn't Shy In His Hate For ‘The Danish Girl’

Directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi have just-finished shooting the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-starring “Bad Boys For Life.”

Joe Carnahan (“Smokin’ Aces,” “Narc” and “The Grey”) was once attached to write and direct the movie and, according to a recent interview he gave (via The Playlist), some of the details of his scrapped sequel included a back-handed dig at Oscar-winner “The Danish Girl.”

“I hated ‘The Danish Girl’ so much,” Carnahan said. “I said, ‘Could you make a poster for ‘The Danish Girl’ and blow it apart?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we can do that.’ I fucking hated that movie with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns. I think [the people who worked on ‘The Danish Girl’] are all really talented, I just hated that movie, me personally. I’m sure they hate my movies.”

In case you forgot the movie, “The Danish Girl,” was a Tom Hooper-directed Oscar-bait vehicle starring Eddie Redmayne as painter Lili Elbe, one of the first known cases of sex reassignment surgery.

“Bad Boys For Life” was shot via a screenplay by Chris Bremner. The film is set for release on January 17, 2020.

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Netflix Fires Film Chief Dan Lin

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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC

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Ron Howard’s ‘Alone at Dawn’ Starring Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway Sets Christmas 2027 Release

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Jeremy Saulnier’s Next Film Retitled to ‘Slayground,’ Current Runtime is 2.5 Hours, Plot Details

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Jemima Kirke and Alexi Wasser to Star in Woody Allen's Next Film

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

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