For some time within the early to mid-2000s, Josh Hartnett launched into an honest number of tasks however ended up, for no matter cause, showing in a complete bunch of crime dramas and thrillers. After the 2002 romantic comedy “40 Days and 40 Nights” with Shannyn Sossamon, Hartnett pivoted and joined Harrison Ford because the co-lead of the 2003 buddy cop film “Hollywood Murder,” melding these two sensibilities in 2004’s unsettling romantic drama “Wicker Park” with Rose Byrne and Diane Kruger.
In 2005, Hartnett confirmed up in Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s legendary graphic novel “Sin Metropolis” as The Salesman, a terrifying determine who begins and ends the film, and he adopted that jarring position with two back-to-back crime flicks. In 2006, Hartnett led “The Black Dahlia,” against the law drama primarily based on the true Hollywood homicide of Elizabeth Brief and the media frenzy that adopted; shortly thereafter and in that very same 12 months, he starred in “Fortunate Quantity Slevin,” the place he performs a man named Slevin (no, actually) who finally ends up concerned in a sophisticated and harmful state of affairs solely as a result of individuals mistake him for his buddy Nick (Sam Jaeger). After this string of crime films, Hartnett eased up a bit of bit, however clearly, he was in some kind of temper for some time within the mid-2000s.