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Channing Tatum admits he preferred the original title of his upcoming movie The Lost City, previously known as the racier The Lost City of D.
Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock’s upcoming adventure comedy The Lost City was originally known as The Lost City of D, a racier title that Tatum admitted he preferred.
“I wished they wouldn’t have dropped the ‘D,'” Tatum said in an interview with Variety. “You never drop the ‘D.'” The film’s original title was seemingly a play on The Lost City of Z, a nonfiction book about British explorer Percy Fawcett and his search for an ancient lost city in the Amazon, which was adapted into a 2016 movie of the same name starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland. The “D” of The Lost City of D, however, had a more phallic connotation.
Paramount Pictures announced during a CinemaCon presentation in Aug. 2021 that The Lost City of D had been retitled The Lost City. The action-packed romantic comedy features Bullock as a romance novelist who ends up on a cutthroat jungle adventure with her cover model, played by Tatum.
Bullock and Tatum recently described shooting one of the film’s big comedic set pieces, a sequence teased in the trailer for The Lost City, which sees Tatum’s character nude and covered in leeches. “He worked so hard for a comedic moment that he knew needed to look and be a certain way,” said Bullock. “And I spent the remainder of the day just looking at it all, having long monologues to his bits and pieces.”
Tatum added, “We didn’t have any live leeches on set. We had a man gluing rubber leeches to my butt. That was my second day on set, and I had to be buck naked. I was like, ‘Hi, my name is Chan. I’ll be naked today.’ Everyone is trying to look up and away.”
Directed by brothers Adam and Aaron Nee, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oren Uziel (22 Jump Street) and Dana Fox (Cruella), The Lost City also features Daniel Radcliffe as an eccentric billionaire who kidnaps Bullock’s character so she can lead him to an ancient city’s lost treasure from her latest book. Brad Pitt, who recently worked with Bullock on the upcoming action thriller Bullet Train, makes a cameo appearance in the movie.
In addition to debuting the film’s trailer in Dec. 2021, Paramount Pictures also released several promo images from The Lost City, promising plenty of thrilling adventures and exotic locales.
The Lost City hits theaters on March 25.
Source: Variety
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