Oh, Isla Fisher. I’ve loved that spunky little firecrotch ever since I saw Wedding Crashers, and the crazy thing is, she can actually act. She’s married to Sacha Baron Cohen and it seems like she’s a big enough star to find decent projects, but her last movie was Confessions of a Shopaholic with Jerry Bruckheimer. But she’s got a new one on the way. From THR:
Universal Pictures has picked up “Desperados,” a comedy spec from Ellen Rapoport that will act as a potential starring vehicle for Isla Fisher.
The story is set in motion when a woman sends an indignant e-mail to her new beau, who’s gone silent after they have sex. When she discovers he’s comatose in a Mexican hospital, she races south of the border with her friends in tow to intercept the e-mail before he recovers. The project has been described as a female-oriented “Hangover.”
I don’t get it, do people who write about movies actually ever see movies? That doesn’t sound anything like The Hangover. But it sounds exactly like Road Trip, where Breckin Meyer has to get the sex tape he made with Amy Smart that he accidentally sent his girlfriend, and who hasn’t been there? Remember that? I feel like maybe part of the problem with Hollywood is that the trades are written for an audience that doesn’t remember anything before six months ago. I also don’t have high hopes for projects that can be boiled down to five words or less (Road Trip with chicks!) unless those five words are “Megan Fox ass to ass.” Also, how do you intercept an email? Do you have to go inside the internet like Tron? Maybe this will be good after all.