Despite The Proposal earning $315 million on a $40 million budget, Disney nixed plans for a sequel earlier this year. But not to fear: Universal is bringing back the feature talent and entire creative team for another project. Pete Hammond is already calling it “the best idea since fire.”
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds are reuniting on a new action comedy, tentatively titled Most Wanted. The project, a pitch from The Proposal screenwriter Peter Chiarelli, was purchased by Universal Pictures on Friday [for $1 million following a bidding war]. They are currently negotiating with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher to helm the film. The storyline for the movie revolves around a criminal (Bullock) being escorted to court by a U.S. Marshall (Reynolds). Both are ambushed on the way and are forced to go on the run. [EW]
I can imagine how this pitch went down:
PROPOSAL WRITER: So… do you remember The Bounty Hunter?
UNIVERSAL CEO: (*IMDB’s The Bounty Hunter on Blackberry*)
Of course I do. Go on.PROPOSAL WRITER: It’s that, but with likable actors.
UNIVERSAL CEO: (*hands Proposal Writer a million dollars*) BUTLER! FETCH MY COCAINE!
Semi-related: The most patronizing Sandra Bullock gif in the history of the world:
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Who the fuck invited Sara Rue to the MTV Movie Awards?
So Universal came to it´s senses and fired Rick Ross. Rick Ross got rickrossed. Can he do that? is it like auto fellatio walrus?
Having watched The Proposal with my wife hoping that it might at least get me a handy later that night, I can say I’d rather watch a movie involving Anne Feltcher.
That bitch knows her way around a straw and a butthole.
Oh, um, Vince…do you happen to have any more pictures of that girl in the red and white stripe bikini…you know, like beaver pictures? I ain’t even gonna lie, been on a dry streak and she has been askin’ me for the best 45 seconds of my life.
I’d rather watch a 90-minute video of Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin docking (Now, and not when they were young and sexy in Midnight Run, either) while Yaphet Kotto peed on them.
I suppose in your last line you assume since Bounty Hunter sucked so hard Gerard Butler has become a lowly assistant to said CEO
Dear Ryan, knock it off with the romcoms! I can stomach the Wolverines and the Blade month
vies, but I can’t do this.
P.S. Take off your shirt.
I wish this current “recycled rom-com with different actors” epidemic would “Price the Coleman” already.
Like Double Jeopardy and Kate from Lost!
Sandra is such a criminal, she steals her own Blackberry! LOL!
I wish America would spend $300 million on a romance starring a broken oil pipe and something to plug it.
Do they fuck in a box car? I bet they fuck in a box car. [nods knowingly]
Form the looks of that gif, Sandra Bullock is about a year away from being Renee Zellweger.
I liked this better when it was called Chasers, and Erica Eleniak starred while Dennis Hopper directed.
On a related note, holy fuck did you know that Dennis Hopper directed Chasers?!?
An eagle tried to steal my ability to care about this movie, but I had it hidden in my skidmarked underwear safe.
I wish my scummy biker husband would cheat on me so I could get movies greenlit out of pitty *dismissive wank*
I like Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.
I also like fire and my penis.
Some things just aren’t meant to go together.
I hope Ryan Reynolds plays some scummy beefy biker bounty hunter tatted up fucking nazi prosties as he chases Sandry
‘tino, Rich Ross works @ Disney.