Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum star in ‘The Lost City,’ a new adventure thriller that recounts the events when popular novelist Loretta Sage (Bullock) is abducted by a billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) with aspirations to acquire a lost treasure.
Because of the nature of Loretta’s relationship with Tatum’s character — a cover model named Alan who sets out to save her from her awful fate – the film has been dubbed a “adventure rom-com.”
Bullock, however, indicated in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com that she believes the film would be marketed differently if her and Tatum’s positions were swapped.
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“It doesn’t fall into the typical category of rom-com,” she said. “It’s action-adventure, it has comedy and has some romance.
“And if the roles were reversed, if it had been Channing in my role and me in his role, they wouldn’t be calling it a rom-com adventure. They’d be calling it Indiana Jones.
“So I sort of wanted to have what the guys had had for so long and not make it overt, so you just go, ‘I’ve had the best time. Oh, wait a minute. Did you notice that this wasn’t this way and this wasn’t…’, you know?”
The picture has already done well at the box office in the United States, and when asked if she is optimistic about the future of this type of film on the big screen, Bullock, who also serves as a producer, replied she isn’t sure.
“We came up against a lot making it because there was no comp for it,” she explained. “But it kind of feels good that now we are the comp for it. Because we need it!”
