My identify is Gabriel. I’m an angel. I’m right here to save lots of you. With the wings to show it, Keanu Reeves is getting down to rescue Aziz Ansari, if he can really pull it off. Dropping at the moment is the trailer for Good Fortune courtesy of Lionsgate.
Within the trailer, we meet Reeves’ angel, who learns that Ansari’s Arj, who has misplaced his job and is sleeping in his automotive regardless of his finest efforts. And whereas this guardian angel doesn’t usually dabble in such affairs, he’s taking a threat. A part of his aim is to indicate him that the individuals he works for – mainly a millionaire named Jeff (Seth Rogen) that that form of life isn’t as entire because it seems to be. And so he swaps their lives and our bodies…solely to search out out that Arj is an terrible lot happier, unwilling to swap again with Jeff and pushing Gabriel into his personal disaster.
Accompanying the trailer was a video of Ansari phoning up Reeves to participate within the “Goodnight, bro” pattern that has hit social media (the identical one Robert De Niro hit Martin Scorsese with). Involved, Reeves asks if every part is OK, to which Ansari – decked out in his PJs – responds that he simply wished to say goodnight to his pal…and hype up the trailer launch.
Right here is the official plot of the film, as per Lionsgate: “In GOOD FORTUNE, a well-meaning however relatively inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles within the lives of a struggling gig employee (Aziz Ansari) and a rich enterprise capitalist (Seth Rogen).” The supporting solid contains Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
The film is a bit of fine fortune for Aziz Ansari, who additionally writes and directs, rebounding from what was presupposed to be his debut, Being Mortal, which was shelved over controversies surrounding star Invoice Murray. And based mostly on the trailer and chemistry between Ansari, Rogen and Reeves, this appears to be a strong begin to a promising directing profession. Ansari additionally directed a handful of episodes – together with all the closing season – of his Netflix collection Grasp of None. The film comes out on October seventeenth following a debut at TIFF.
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