"A friend anyone would want at their side."
When news that Kevin Costner’s next film project was to be a surf-themed thriller, surfers around the world felt a jolt of excitement but quickly tried to temper each other’s expectations. For every Point Break, you see, there are ten Point Break 2s. Movies that so butcher the very idea of this surfing life so badly that it becomes embarrassing to be seen anywhere near the ocean with anything resembling a board.
Headhunters, in any case, follows Costner’s Lazer “a washed-up American ex-pat with a mysterious past who finds himself living in Bali, Indonesia. Lazer recruits a group of surfers led by Bima, a local photographer, on a journey to an uncharted island to pioneer a ‘perfect wave.’ To their surprise, the island is home to an ancient tribe of headhunters guarding the land at all costs. What ensues is an adventure turned survival story of epic and bloody proportions on a tropical island which once seemed to be paradise but is actually closer to hell.”
Promising and yet things seemed to have already taken a turn for the worse with a real bitchy mole on the Hawaiian set sharing, “He’s been quietly trying to get in the surfing community for years and hasn’t even got a foot in the door because they think he’s lame and a Hollywood star who should stick to dry land. Surfers don’t like these amateurs infringing on their waves. Plus, he’s locked in this ‘I’m cool in my new life’ mode, and they’re saying, ‘Who does he think he is?’”
And also, “This is the way Kevin does things. But he’s got a long way to go, and he may never reach his goal because, let’s face it, he’s a lousy surfer.”
Well, in a likely attempt to shore up Headhunters surf bonafides, producers announced, today, that up-and-coming Australian star Sam Corlett has been cast as part of the adventure-seeking surf group as Sam, “a hard-charging Australian surfer with a friendly, approachable nature, who has a fearless edge, especially when it comes to tackling heavy waves. While he may seem rough around the edges, he’s grounded, quick to crack a joke, and easygoing — a friend anyone would want at their side.”
Corlett burst onto the scene in Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla. As an out-and-proud vegan, he was uncomfortable wearing leather on the Irish set but was “provided with Desserto based body armour, a type of artificial leather made from cacti.
More importantly, though, he hails from New South Wales‘ central coast and does surf.
Mick Fanning-esque, no?
Will Corlett be able to shut down naughty “Kevin Costner is a kook” talk on set with his languid style or will the film continue to devolve?
More, certainly, as the story develops.
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I hear he’s ailing, but nevertheless, any Hollywood effort to portray surfing without input from Milius will probably fail. And I endorse this outcome.
BTW speaking of viking movies; Valhalla Rising with Mads Mikkelson is fricken awesome and not in a hipster glamorous way.
Brillant soundscapes / end music.
It sounds sort of like a remake of The Beach except surfing instead of weed an head hunters instead of drug lords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pV3LZeT5Z5c Tell me your having a mid life crisis without telling me your having a mid life crisis.
In reality, he doesn’t surf. Has a sick property in front of one of the better waves in the area (but he don’t live there), owns a badass boat perfectly setup for surfing, owns another house in front of a decent, but soft, longboard wave walking distance from the other property, but he doesn’t surf regardless of what people want to think. (And that off road area he is driving the truck on is a dozer cut road that I have personally driven a small sedan on, no need for that truck until you hit the sand).
That thing is a weiner shrinker
He did a Tundra thing few years back too. Free trucks.
I will have a mid-life crisis if it gets me one of them.
U can. Just get one of those 60 month leases and install the racks yourself.
Any Corlettations between Sam and Will?
Agnar Corlettsen aka Willy?
There is not a single thing on this guys Insta that indicates he surfs. He does post some random photo claiming its Ulu but sure does look a lot like Raglan. Stretch Armstrong has returned to the chat.
An Australian Viking wearing cactus leather? That is the most Hollywood thing I have read all year.
I hope for historical accuracy that Kostners Captain Kook gets spit roasted by the local headhunters!
Indeed.
It sounds to me like the headhunters are the heroes of this movie.
They really need to get Billy Kemper in it, have him play himself, fuck his legs up, needing a medivac- ring his brother in law – Bruno Mars – to cover the charges – who tells him to get fucked, followed by a humiliating call to the WSL offices – he can’t get hold of them, keeps getting connected to a veterinary office. Running out of options he hits his old mates in the big wave world, who politely decline to come to his aid. In desperation he launches a go fund me, but again crickets. Unfortunately Kostner and the other pro surfers in the movie can’t stay with him – because the head hunters are coming, and they are hungry. The last the audience hears from Billy’s character is bloodcurdling screams as he is boiled alive in his yeti ice bath cooler!
Epic! 😆
“…Bali, Indonesia”…what, is there a “Bali, Idaho”?
Red flag for a dumber than fuck movie.
skull-f++ed. the end.
Just keep Kelly Slater out of it and we are all good.. 🤙