Sam Worthington Arrested (and Pepper Sprayed) in Atlanta

Sam Worthington is about thisclose to morphing into Russell Crowe.
We’re stil trying to decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Sam Worthington is about thisclose to morphing into Russell Crowe.
We’re stil trying to decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Australian actor Sam Worthington is being courted to play the lead role in the upcoming Universal Pictures thriller Dracula: Year Zero, Encore Magazine reports.
Sam Worthington is trying something different — he’s doing a movie that won’t require him to battle robots or fight blue aliens!

The Aussie actor will star in the indie thriller The Fields, directed by Ami Canaan Mann (Michael Mann’s daughter). The murder mystery will see Worthington as a Texas homicide detective who joins with a New York detective to investigate unsolved murders in the Texas bayous, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The project is scheduled to begin shooting in early April.
Now that Avatar — the latest cinema epic from lensman James Cameron — has become the highest-grossing film of all-time, star Sam Worthington is campaigning for a pay raise to reprise his role in the eagerly-anticipated follow-up.
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Sam stars with actresses Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver in the sci-fi fantasy film, but according to In Touch Weekly insiders, the 33-year-old actor wants big bucks to appear in the sequel currently being crafted by Cameron. With a bevy of Oscar nominations to its credit, Avatar has earned more than $2 billion since its release in November. Sam is hoping for a salary that will mirror his role in making the film a blockbuster.