Is the Ryan Reynolds/Sandra Bullock duo a good one?
While the “The Proposal 2” wasn’t green lit and was in fact, canceled earlier this year by Disney, the romantic comedy went on to make $317 million at the box-office.
When was the last time a romcom made that kind of money? Hell, it’s been a minute and while that decision seems to demonstrate that Disney has their heads fully up their asses (the film only cost $40 million to make), other studios are wisely realizing the chemistry and potential displayed in that film is worth revisiting again.
And that studio is Universal, who are tapping the couple to star in “Most Wanted,” an action comedy directed by none other than “The Proposal” director Anne Fletcher, its writer Pete Chiarelli and its producer David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.
Sounds like that entire creative team is saying, “You don’t want more Disney? Screw you, we’ll take our couple and ideas elsewhere.”
According to THR, the film sounds a little like something like a cross between the recent, “Killers” (the Ashton Kutcher/Katherine Heigl action comedy no one went to see) and “The Bounty Hunter” (the comedy with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler that not many went to see).
Apparently the story starts off with Bullock as a criminal suspect and Reynolds as an FBI agent who is supposed to be escorting her to court when the two are ambushed and forced to go on the run. It apparently has a “Midnight Run”-esque tone which is funny considering Universal is also developing the “Midnight Run” sequel that may or may not star Chales Grodin again (Robert DeNiro seems like he’s already on board as is director Martin Brest).
Despite the aforementioned action comedy flops, or at least pictures that didn’t exactly make mega-bucks, Sandra Bullock is hot. She won the MTV Generation Award last night at the MTV Movie Awards and while that may not seem to mean much, there’s a reason that award was given to her. The older-crowd zeitgest gelled for her last year and she was probably the most profitable woman in movies last year.
“The Blind Side,” which gave the actress her first Oscar Best Actress statuette, made her another $300 million worldwide, leaving her 2009 tally to be in the ballpark of $600 million (Not counting “All About Steve,” which was severely trashed and earned her a Razzie, but collected another $38 million).
The grand irony here? The pitch of this picture went to Disney first, but they underwent a regime change last year and passed. Why does it feel more than obvious that they’re going to regret this decision come 2011 when this picture is finally released?