It's raining men - hunky hollywood heartthrobs to be specific, and they are falling on broadway later this year. 007 star Daniel Craig will join Wolverine star Hugh Jackman for a new broadway theater drama “A Steady Rain”.
The play, written by Keith Huff and produced by Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, follows two cops from Chicago whose close friendship is pushed to its limits after becoming involved in a domestic dispute in a poor neighborhood, reports the New York Post.
This will be Craig’s New York stage debut. He started in the theater in London, playing bit parts, but he has not appeared in a play in several years. While in 2004, Hugh won a Tony Award for his role as Peter Allen in the musical The Boy From Oz.
Although the musical received mixed reviews, Jackman became a box-office sensation, shaking a pair of maracas and flouncing around the stage in tight leopard pants. "The Boy From Oz" regularly grossed more than $1 million a week. Jackman became the most sought-after leading man in the theater, though he's turned down every offer to star in another show until now.
"Everybody wanted him to do a musical, but he wanted to do a serious play," a theater source says. Theater sources say Craig and Jackman have the potential to match Broadway's biggest box office champ, Julia Roberts, who sold over $10 million worth of tickets in just 12 weeks in the play "Three Days of Rain" in 2006.
Barbara Broccoli, who oversees the James Bond movie franchise, is producing "A Steady Rain." She arrives in New York from Europe this weekend to scout out Broadway theaters, sources said. Stay tuned for more details on when and where you can catch the steady rain fall later this year.