If you think the movie industry is churning out a whole lot of expensive nothing these days, you’re not along. Clive Owen thinks so too.

The actor found a script he liked when he first read ‘The Boys are Back,’ which premiered at TIFF this week. ”I never look for genre films,” Owen told the Toronto Star. “It always comes down to the script, and this script really moved me.”

Lately, however, this is not usually the case.

In an interview with Details magazine, Owen, who has featured in such diversified film fare as ‘Sin City,’ ‘Gosford Park’ and ‘Closer,’ wonders at the state of Hollywood. For the first time in years, says the magazine, he’s got nothing definite in the pipeline. A fan of classic movies (and sports cars and David Bowie), the star says he comes home to a pile of new scripts every day, most of which are “not very good.”

“And these are films that are funded and ready to go—expensive movies. You’re amazed that people are funding them. I start to think it’s me—that I’m being too choosy.”

‘The Boys are Back’  is based on a novel by Simon Carr and was adapted by Allan Cubitt. In it Owen plays Joe Warr, a sports journalist grieving the loss of his Australian wife to cancer and dealing with becoming the single parent of a 7-year-old son.

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