Jane Campion offered to settle her feud with Sam Elliott in the ol’ fashioned way. The "Power of the Dog" director recently appeared on the Hollywood Reporter’s "Awards Chatter Podcast" and revealed the pair had unfinished business to take care of. "OK, Sam, let’s meet down at the Warner Bros.
lot for a shootout!" the 67-year-old joked to the outlet. "I’m bringing Doctor Strange [the Marvel character portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, the star of her latest film] with me!" A spokesperson for the 77-year-old didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Jan Campion challenged Sam Elliott to a movie ‘shootout’ amid their feud over ‘The Power of the Dog’. (Getty Images) The real-life drama began when Elliott criticized the 67-year-old's take on the Western genre during his recent appearance of Marc Maron’s "WTF" podcast.
When Elliott was asked if he had seen the film, the star replied, "You want to talk about that piece of s---?" Elliott referenced a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times that featured a review blurb that described the film as "an evisceration of the American myth." The film is also nominated for 12 Academy Awards. "I thought, what the f---?" Elliott said of the adaptation from the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. "This is a guy who has done Westerns his entire life. ‘The evisceration of the American myth.’ It looked like — what are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bow ties and not much else?
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