F-ck me, Hollywood’s been making body-switch movies so long they’re running out of titles. Don’t believe me? The phenomenon even has its own Wikipedia page. Most recently there was 17 Again with Zac Efron, and now Ashton Kutcher’s getting in the mix (that’s black slang, grandpa).
Story centers on a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies, then quickly learn valuable lessons about humility and courage.
Hmmm, so what? It’s been done before. I don’t think we’re interested. What do you call it?
“Traded” had been developed at DreamWorks but became the property of Par following DreamWorks’ exit in the fall. [Variety]
Traded! I get that! It’s brilliant! OH MY GOD LET’S GO DRINK CHAMPAGNE AND HIT OURSELVES WITH HAMMERS!
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The studio sold both Ashton and Zac with the same pitch: “Okay, so another dude enters your body and…”
“I’LL DO IT!”
The irony of the story of course is that the quarterback fails out of middle school and gets hooked on angel dust.
Tell me more about these manbabies.
If they’re just going to keep making the same movie over and over, why can’t it be Cheerleader Sluts from Mars?
I liked my original spin on this genre:
“Stiffed” – An accountant and Evan Stone switch bodies after the accountant buys a magical DVD… Evan stone learns to appreciate his huge dong, while the accountant discovers that porn stars trade STDs like Magic cards.
Would be interesting too if instead they just changed booties.
And I’ve been wondering what happened to the couch I used to have in my room at the frat house.
Also in production, “Faded”, a comedy starring Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy in which they switch personalities and nobody notices.
Ashton doesn’t see what magic has to do with this, Demi’s been switching body parts out for years now.
I’ve got a great idea for the end all for body-switching movies. A Dreamworks executive and a 6-year old retarded boy switch back.
I’m hoping against hope Ashton catches AIDS and they have to change the title to Prelude to a Kick.
Jackie just became Jack. Robert just became Roberta. As the two transsexuals’ surgeries are coming to completion at the exact same second, their spirits are magically interchanged, and each now find themselves back in a body type they just paid thousands to escape. Cut and Paste opens on July 4, 2010.
I hope Ashton catches AIDS and gets injured on the field and placed in a wheelchair and they have to change the title to Rolaids.
*rimshot*
$100 says that black guy from The Office plays an Offensive Lineman.
I want to switch bodies with Ed Powers. i’m way better looking and have a much prettier cock, but he does bang hotter ass than i ever have.
Bart is a hockey player. Billy is a race car driver. When the two athletes are knocked unconscious, during events, they magically trade places, only to find themselves in the midst of situations neither of them was ready for. Stick Shift opens on Administrative Assistant Appreciation Day, 2009.
Jason Biggs plays a single loser who’s always the third wheel on his roommate’s (Josh Hartnett) hot dates. That is, until they meet a girl (Blake Lively) who’s into threeways. ‘Bate & Switch opens this Fall.
Pleez, I, can, haz, more, commas?
I’d like to see a movie like this where Gary Busey and Nick Nolte switch.
Zac Efron’s got it all — a great job, awesome friends and the hottest girl on the planet. But all of that changes when a mysterious Greek waiter (Adrian Grenier) who serves him a magic falafel, turning their lives upside down. Reacharound opens this Winter.
Jeremy Piven is a successful actor whose life is changed forever when he contracts amnesia from a bad spicy tuna roll and takes on the persona of the house cat that inhabits his favorite sushi restaurant. Raw Pussy opens Christmas Day.
Nic Cage and Seth Rogen switch bodies in Fox’s upcoming flick “Fuckers I Wish Would Die are Still Fuckers I Wish Would Die Just In Different Bodies”.
Sequel to Steve’s movie…
Jeremy Piven returns to his life as a successful actor when he contracts mercury poisoning from a bad spicy tuna roll and takes on the persona of a Johnson and Johnson rectal thermometer. Mercury Rising opens Thanksgiving Day.
Coming soon from Pixar, Reese Witherspoon voices a fire hydrant that becomes self aware after an electrical storm and falls for the rough and tough fire house Dalmation. Discover the wonders of imagination and the depths of love in Red Rocket.
This is so weird. My friends and I were just mentioning how we haven’t seen Haley Joel Osment in ages.
man…. thats like what happens when the first one comes back to take another person and shoot them in the face for being retarted.