>>840 Yes I totally agree that if he had a quality project he would have taken it.

He did say he had some theatre project on the books which he was supposed to be announcing as long ago as May. Wonder what happened to that? If he is worried about gaps, I have been mystified why he hasn't gone to the Donmar or wherever and said he wants to do more theatre. They would be bound to say yes as his fame does mean he sells out theatres (smaller venues plus I suppose the added draw of seeing him in the flesh). And a good theatre project with a possible West End transfer is intellectually and critically respectable. A good way to win back the critics, a return to something he does very well, and an opportunity to live at home for a while.

I have a horrible feeling that his American PR has told him it is movies or nothing. Not the right call in my view - par for the course with them.