It’s all the time thrilling to see the (film) stars realign with each other, particularly in the event that they initially hit it out of the park. A pair many have been ready on to do exactly that is Keanu Reeves and his Velocity co-star Sandra Bullock. After their 1994 smash and glorious excessive octane chemistry, they’d a so-so romantic fantasy observe up, they usually’re now gearing as much as reunite in a brand new romantic thriller. Reeves is hyped for the reunion, however realizing how lengthy the duo has tried to get this rolling is stunning to me.
ET chatted with the A-list actor, who was attending the 2025 film calendar premiere of the John Wick spinoff Ballerina. To begin off the dialog, they requested Reeves how he felt about being on set with Bullock once more in spite of everything these years. He shared that he and his The Lake Home costar needed to land one other venture collectively, and because of an previous Velocity producer, it’s now a actuality. Nevertheless, the timeline on the now unnamed Amazon MGM venture took a while to safe, with Reeves stating:
She and I had all the time needed to work collectively, and one of many producers we had labored with prior to now, Mark Gordon, type of introduced the concept to us. And so over the previous couple of years, we have been attempting to determine what we may do.
Thank goodness for his or her previous producer and this concept he pitched alongside the movie’s author, Noah Oppenheim (Jackie, Zero Day). Throughout Velocity’s thirtieth anniversary final yr, talks of a threequel had been on the desk, pending some phrases, however I’m glad to see we’re getting one thing totally else so as to add to the Bullock/Reeves catalog. In spite of everything, the sequel was a flop and it landed the Jack Traven actor in “film jail” for turning down the 1997 installment. Nonetheless, I’m stunned for even A+ Hollywood names it took them this lengthy to nail one thing down collectively.
Discovering the fitting title, style and time of their respective schedules is comprehensible. It does sound like that it’s been a course of in coordinating issues correctly (I do belief their phrase as a result of each ship stellar work). However, exterior of the present multi-year search in re-joining ranks with each other, their monitor report checks out in these slow-paced timelines. It was 12 years between Velocity (which you’ll be able to stream with a Max subscription) and The Lake Home (obtainable through VOD providers), and now, it’ll possible be a minimum of 20 earlier than this new romantic thriller hits theaters.
Whereas this title is moving into the complete pre-production swing, each have some enjoyable titles heading our approach. The Miss Congeniality star is returning to her witchy roots in Sensible Magic 2 alongside Nicole Kidman. The Invoice & Ted alum will subsequent seem in Aziz Ansari’s comedy Good Fortune.
Each flicks ought to maintain us over till the extremely anticipated and thrilling Bullock-Reeves return to display. Hopefully it gained’t take them so lengthy sooner or later in the event that they select to staff up once more.