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Speed star sweetly bonds with fellow passengers during long ride on public transport after plane makes emergency landing in california. Keanu reeves passengers taken off calendar, rachel. Apr 18, 20 keanu reeves scifi film passengers gets a game of thrones director. Keanu reeves scifi film passengers gets a game of thrones director. Mar 15, 2014 the longgestating 2007 black listapproved passengers was resuscitated last year when tv vet brian kirk and the weinstein company aligned themselves with the keanu reeves starring and produced. Due to a computer glitch, a single passenger keanu reeves awakens from cryogenic. Feb 03, 2017 keanu reeves wanted to make passengers for years and years and years, he told yahoo movies while doing press for his anticipated film, john wick. Reese witherspoon has entered discussion over taking the lead female role in the scifi love romp passengers, alongside keanu reeves. The film was supposed to star keanu reeves and rachel mcadams. Keanu reeves sweetly bonds with fellow passengers during ride. Keanu reeves latest heroic endeavor just happened off the big screen. Mar 19, 2014 focus features is riding to the rescue of passengers, the upcoming keanu reeves film that was postponed this month after rachel mcadams exited the project, an individual familiar with the. Chapter 2 costar, laurence fishburne briefly appeared in.
Keanu reeves takes road trip with fellow stranded passengers. Keanu charles reeves, whose first name means cool breeze over the mountains in hawaiian, was born september 2, 1964 in beirut, lebanon. What keanu reeves thinks about passengers, a movie he really. Mar 26, 2019 keanu reeves latest heroic endeavor just happened off the big screen. Keanu reeves has been developing his scifi romantic drama passengers for many years and its finally paying off as the movie is going to get made with. Reeves and rachel mcadams were at one time attached to star, with brian kirk attached to direct. Keanu reeves scifi drama passengers heading for new. Nov 05, 2019 so the news that keanu reeves was pictured with a woman said to be his new girlfriend, the artist alexandra grant, aged 46, has left me kind of thrilled. Keanu reeves rescues stranded airline passengers with van.
At one point, the film was set to star keanu reeves and emily blunt. Apr 12, 2019 keanu reeves became the perfect travel companion when a plane was forced to land 2 hours away from its destination with dozens of passengers stranded in bakersfield. Keanu reeves reportedly organized a van for passengers stranded after an airplane experienced mechanical issues. Keanu reeves is known for his roles in iconic films like john wick, speed, and the matrix franchise, but the actor is also a really good guy in additional to being humble and generous, reeves is often in the news for his random acts of kindness, which range from giving up his seat on a crowded subway train to secretly donating huge sums of money to childrens hospitals. Reeves has been involved with the project at least since 2007, when the film s script popped up on the annual black list of greatest unproduced screenplays. Keanu reeves passengers taken off calendar, rachel mcadams. Keanu reeves became the perfect travel companion when a plane was forced to land 2 hours away from its destination with dozens of passengers stranded in bakersfield. Keanu reeves wanted to make passengers for years and years and years, he told yahoo movies while doing press for his anticipated film, john wick. Brian kirk to direct keanu reeves in scifi film passengers. Mar 25, 2019 keanu reeves knows how to handle an emergency situation on the big screen and in real life over the weekend, a united flight the john wick star, 54, was traveling aboard from san francisco. Passengers is a futuristic scifi movie with a very complicated past. Mar 26, 2019 keanu reeves was on a flight from san francisco to burbank when the flight was forced to redirect to bakersfield, according to the actors fellow passengers who documented the trip on social. Passengers is set in the future on a spacecraft making a centurieslong interstellar voyage to a new planet. Keanu reeves bonds with passengers after flight makes.
Gabriele muccino to direct passengers, starring keanu. A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. Keanu reeves road trips with plane passengers after emergency. Passengers stranded of the abandoned san francisco to burbank flight achieved a hollywood ending to their travel drama with thanks to film star keanu reeves.
Mar 19, 2014 focus features is in talks to acquire u. Keanu reeves praises passengers despite losing leading role. Keanu reeves was the best companion on a bus ride with a bunch of stranded plane passengers michael tranfilmmagic by cady lang. The story and screenplay for passengers were developed at keanu reeves. Keanu reeves helped fellow airline passengers after. Fellow passengers enjoyed a most excellent adventure with actor keanu reeves saturday after their flight from san francisco to burbank, california, made an emergency landing in bakersfield. The longgestating 2007 black listapproved passengers was resuscitated last year when tv vet brian kirk and the weinstein company aligned themselves with the keanu reeves starring and. Keanu reeves is opening up about not being bitter about missing the opportunity to star passengers while promoting his new film john wick 2, the 52yearold actor talked about being attached to. Passengers why it took a decade to launch a black list darling. Dec 21, 2016 the scifi space romance, starring jennifer lawrence and chris pratt, has been trying to get off the launchpad for nine years and at one time or another attracted the interest of keanu reeves. The plot has reeves as space colonist jim preston, on board a colony ship carrying 5,000 sleeping passengers to a new world. The filmography of the actor began to be replenished with works in the second half of the 80s. The actor, 54, was on a united airlines flight from san francisco to burbank, california when his plane made an. Keanu reeves finds outer space love in passengers with.
The brian kirkdirected film reportedly focuses around a starship. New details on passengers starring keanu reeves and directed. Reeves has been involved with the project at least since 2007, when the films script popped up on the annual black list of greatest unproduced screenplays. After years in development, the film is to be directed by brian kirk game of thrones and boardwalk empire with keanu reeves and rachel mcadams starring. Keanu reeves wanted to make passengers for years and years and years, he told yahoo movies while doing press for his anticipated film. On saturday the united airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at the meadows. Keanu s father was born in hawaii, of british, portuguese, native hawaiian, and chinese ancestry, and. It placed third on the black list in 2007, the always lauded list of the best unproduced scripts in hollywood its previously featured argo, chronicle, the prestige, 500 days of summer and spotlight, was originally set to star keanu reeves and emily blunt, and since then has been one of the most heavily. Passengers is apparently an intimate mix of cryogenics.
May 02, 20 news confirms that witherspoon is currently in talks to join fellow actor keanu reeves in the scifi love story passengers. Keanu reeves wanted to do passengers for years and years. The story and screenplay for passengers were developed at keanu reeves and stephen hamels production company, company films. Tv director brian kirk game of thrones will make his featurelength debut on passengers, a scifi film starring keanu reeves and written by jon spaihts cowriter of prometheus.
As keanu reeves mentioned, even though he didnt get to star in passengers, his matrix and john wick. Italian filmmaker gabriele muccino, best known in the u. The imitation game filmmaker morten tyldum is being eyed to direct sonys scifi thriller passengers, starring keanu reeves. Keanu reeves finds outer space love in passengers with the. Keanu reeves befriends fellow grounded flight passengers. Keanu reeves was originally planned to be the lead in passengers. Way back when, keanu reeves was supposed to star in passengers.
What keanu reeves thinks about passengers, a movie he. His professional life saw only the release of indie film the private lives of pippa lee and minor involvement as the producer for sparhusen, a fictional swedish band in the webseries easy to assemble where keanu wears a blond wig, two layers of shades, and. With jennifer lawrence, chris pratt, michael sheen, laurence fishburne. Reese witherspoon may join keanu reeves in passengers. The project has been for sale at cannes with exclusive media handling.
Brian kirk has signed on to direct keanu reeves in passengers, based on jon spaihts black list script. Apr 18, 20 a director has been set for the longgestating scifi film passengers, which has keanu reeves attached to star. Passengers lines up imitation game director jan 27, 2015. Reeves also took pictures with several of his fellow passengers, which they posted on twitter. Keanu reeves knows how to handle an emergency situation on the big screen and in real life over the weekend, a united flight the john wick. So on television there was a new employee keanu reeves. Instead of lawrence and pratt, we could have been watching emily blunt and keanu reeves. The script was developed by stephen hamel and reeves at their production shingle company films. The story takes place on a spacecraft that is transporting thousands of people to a.
Keanu reeves praises passengers despite losing leading. Keanu reeves had a travel emergency that might just rival his two speed movies. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early. Keanu reeves is a reallife superhero after helping fellow airplane passengers. Passengers went back on the market after the weinstein co. Written by john spaihts, who is also penning ridley scott s alien prequel partly thanks to reeves, passengers is a love story set on a spaceship. Actor keanu reeves is interviewed at the to the bone premiere on day 4 of the 2017 sundance film festival at eccles center theatre on january 22, 2017 in park city, utah. Scifi pic passengers to star keanu reeves, with brian. In both films, the bartenders are dressed in red tuxedos, carry themselves in a. The plane was diverted due to a mechanical indication.
Focus features is riding to the rescue of passengers, the upcoming keanu reeves film that was postponed this month after rachel mcadams exited the project, an individual familiar with the. That second passenger, a female, has yet to be cast. Bad news for keanu reeves scifi romance, passengers. Passengers is a 2016 american science fiction romance film set in 2343 directed by morten.
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