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Keanu Reeves Makes It Very Clear That His New Angel Movie Is NOT a Remake Of John Travolta’s ‘Michael’
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Angels are back on the big screen. In a new movie starring Keanu Reeves. Who plays an angel.
Even better, this new angel movie has Keanu revisiting his Bill & Ted-style comedy roots, after spending the last three decades shooting at cyborgs and Russian gangsters as one of the greatest action stars of all time.
‘Good Fortune’ hits cinemas on October 30th and also stars Seth Rogen and has been written and directed by comedy’s Millenial golden boy, Aziz Ansari, who also features as a lead actor.
It tells the story of Arj, a gig-economy worker in LA who’s been fired from his job, lives in his car and living at rock bottom. He is then visited by a guardian angel, played by Keanu, who swaps Arj’s life with that of super-wealthy tech bro Jeff – played by Seth Rogen.
Keanu Reeves has been quick to distance this film from other comparable movies with similar plot mechanisms, during a recent press junket for the film, the Hollywood star made sure to clarify that Good Fortune is not a remake of any other films with characters who also have angel wings.
Reeves is of course referring to the 1996 American fantasy-comedy MICHAEL, starring John Travolta in the midst of the actor’s second great acting slumps, two years after Pulp Fiction.
MICHAEL, named after Saint Michael, follows a team of journalists who have been sent to rural Iowa to investigate reports of an angel living on earth as a rural hick who loves cigarettes and booze.
While funny at times, and commercially successful – MICHAEL received mostly mixed and negative reviews. It holds a 36% Rotten Tomatoes approval rating.
Reeves has made sure to point out that Good Fortune is set in the modern era, while insisting that Ansari’s storytelling brings a unique approach to films about angels.
The star has also pointed out that this is more of a body-swap film than an angel film. But not like the Hot Chick, no offence to Rob Schneider.
More to come.