Sandra Bullock Fought Studio Hard to Get The Lost City Movie Made
Sandra Bullock has revealed that she had to yell at the studio behind The Lost City in order to get the project made. The film is a rom-com starring Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Brad Pitt. The film is scheduled to debut in theaters on March 25.
As of today, the film has officially debuted in theaters for audiences.
The Lost City has had a long road of development to get to theaters. Sandra Bullock was involved with the film from the earliest days of its existence, with Channing Tatum joining the project in late 2020. At that point, the film still went by its original title, The Lost City of D, which was eventually shortened to The Lost City. From there, Daniel Radcliffe was cast as the film’s villain, and Brad Pitt was announced to round out the movie's main cast. These days, a film like The Lost City (which isn't based on a pre-existing IP) is increasingly difficult to get off the ground. However, Bullock did whatever she could to ensure it was made.
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With The Lost City now in theaters, the cast has opened up about the movie’s long journey to the big screen. In fact, in a recent interview with The New York Times, Bullock and Tatum revealed that she actually had to yell at the studio to get the film made when the executives couldn’t justify the cost of such an unprecedented romantic comedy. In the interview, they both said:
BULLOCK Comedy is really hard to come by, and having someone write a three-hander for a comedy? Impossible. Then add action and adventure and scope and depth, and we had three different tones going on that we had to merge, and if we didn’t merge, it wasn’t going to work. The studio kept saying, “There’s no comp for this.” And we
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