Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen have been tapped to star in an upcoming comedy movie from Aziz Ansari.
Announced through the Hollywood Reporter, the movie, titled Good Fortune, is about to start filming subsequent month (May) with plot particulars presently unknown. Good Fortune is being written and directed by Aziz Ansari, who’s finest identified for the Netflix collection Master of None.
Ansari may also co-star within the movie, although the extent of his position is presently unknown.
Good Fortune can be distributed by Lionsgate Films, with studio head Joe Drake saying in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter: “We have indeed found good fortune with this film. We love the script and believe strongly in Aziz as both a performer and a director. And when you add in Seth and Keanu — two incredible world-class talents — toplining alongside Aziz, this has the potential to be a very special film for us. We moved quickly to land this project once it was available.”
Reeves most not too long ago starred in John Wick: Chapter 4, additionally backed by Lionsgate Films. The movie acquired a four-star evaluation from NME‘s Jesse Hassenger, who wrote: “Chapter 4 doesn’t exude the wheel-spinning cynicism of a forever franchise. [Director Chad] Stahelski may traffic in excess, but at least he understands it: how choreography, performance and style can make over-the-top spectacle cohere into pleasurably overwhelming action fizz, rather than congealing into a sweaty special effects overload. He also gets that after 169 minutes, some degree of closure is appreciated. There may well be a John Wick: Chapter 5, but Chapter 4 still feels like a movie giving its all.”
Rogen, alternatively, voices Donkey Kong within the Super Mario Bros. Movie, which is presently screening in cinemas worldwide. Nick Levine wrote in a two-star evaluation of the animated movie for NME: “Clearly, adapting the best-selling video game franchise of all-time into an equally ingenious movie is a tall order. The one previous attempt, a 1993 live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, was a box office flop that has since built a bit of a cult following. This one seems destined for the opposite fate: it’s faithful enough to tempt existing fans to the cinema, but too perfunctory to be pored over. Is the Mario movie super? To paraphrase one of the title character’s catchphrases, it’s-a mediocre.”