hate to quote myself, but I offer another piece of propaganda to support the idea of Gerard Butler as Magnum in the movie.......Seaver41 wrote:as posted in another thread........Gerard Butler.......plenty macho as King Leonidas in '300' and has a softer/comedic side.........as in P.S., I love you (chickflick). He can do an American accent.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... amer_.html
Since his breakthrough role as the hulking King Leonidas in "300," Butler has been sprinting down a bizarre career path — one where he is equally comfortable portraying a lover or a fighter. He says he needs to recharge his batteries, physically and emotionally, after doing an action movie with a romantic comedy or a drama.
"There's been a lot of door-to-door 16-hour days," said Butler, "but just by the nature of what we do, you laugh a lot. ... It's breezier. And I'm not spending all this extra time doing gun training. But by the same token, you miss the testosterone."
It isn't even out of his range to muscle his way into a musical, as he did for 2004's "The Phantom of the Opera."
"It all starts with the fact that Gerard Butler is a hell of a good actor and has a wonderful sense of humor," said Richard Donner, Butler's director on the 2003 action movie "Timeline," via e-mail.
"He's ‘a man's man', the kind of a person you want to go have a couple of beers with."
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I'm pretty sure you can't get a much better qualification for Magnum than that.......