Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are dashing in direction of a “Pace” reunion precisely 30 years after the movie was launched. The duo, who additionally famously co-starred in sci-fi romance drama “The Lake Home,” will probably be again onscreen along with an untitled thriller for Amazon MGM Studios. And don’t fear, there’s yet one more romance part as effectively for this “propulsive” characteristic…
THR first reported the mission, which IndieWire confirmed.
Plus, “Pace” producer Mark Gordon is producing — and based on Amazon, he’s chargeable for bringing the characteristic to each Reeves and Bullock. “Zero Day” co-creator and “Jackie” scribe Noah Oppenheim is penning the script, in addition to producing. Gordon and Oppenheim first introduced the thought for the movie to Reeves and Bullock, who each went on to develop the movie with them. Bullock’s Fortis Movies, Reeves, Bibby Dunn at The Mark Gordon Firm, and Sarah Bremner with Prologue Leisure are additionally producing the movie. Gordon is moreover at the moment producing Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Narnia” movie for Netflix.
The characteristic will probably be Bullock’s first position since “The Misplaced Metropolis” in 2022. Reeves has “John Wick: Chapter 5” within the works, in addition to an look in “Ballerina.” Reeves may also be on Broadway together with his “Invoice and Ted” co-star Alex Winter for a manufacturing of “Ready for Godot.”
Whereas Reeves sat out “Pace 2,” Bullock has cited the sequel for being the explanation why she doesn’t star in franchises. Bullock instructed Too Fab in 2022 that she was “nonetheless embarrassed” to have led “Pace 2: Cruise Management.”
“I’ve been very vocal about it. Is not sensible. Gradual boat. Slowly going in direction of an island,” she stated of the 1997 follow-up movie. Including that her different sequel movie “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Harmful” movie additionally was critically panned, Bullock deemed all of her sequels had been “stinkers.”
“I had a ‘no sequel’ rule after I didn’t take pleasure in combating for what I actually needed,” Bullock stated to Selection at 2022 SXSW. “I really feel like, in my outdated age, I’m studying to struggle for the issues that I feel could be finest on-screen — and I don’t care who comes away from the assembly offended.”