Weird but true: there’s a dude who makes movies almost exclusively for Sandra Bullock and/or Hugh Grant.

You may or may not have heard of Marc Lawrence, but you really ought to know him because this is a tad unusual. His filmography since 1999 is as follows. He wrote all of these and directed four of them.

Forces of Nature - Sandra

Miss Congeniality - Sandra

Miss Congeniality 2 - Sandra

Two Weeks Notice - Sandra and Hugh

Music and Lyrics - Hugh

Did You Hear About the Morgans? - Hugh

The Rewrite - Hugh

Casting the same actors in Hollywood is nothing new. Tarantino reuses the same people in his movies all the time. But these aren’t ensembles or bit parts, they are the leads—his exclusive leads from 1999-2014. Seemingly, Lawrence began each creative world-building process by visualizing either Sandra or Hugh only. It’s fascinating that there was an unbroken sixteen-year period where, for him, Sandra and Hugh were his personal dolls. Questions arise: what stood out about these two in particular? What caused the sudden shift from Bullock to Grant after the Bullock-Grant Merger in Two Weeks Notice?

Additionally he had written movies before these that did not feature the same recurring cast. Then suddenly, the trend began. Obsession? Just job security? Either way, everyone’s got their strats for making it; Mr. Lawrence rides that hot hand ‘til it busts.

Submitted May 18, 2021 at 03:43AM by o2lsports https://ift.tt/3tXumoR