Chris Evans’ grand romantic gesture for Ana de Armas goes violently awry in Ghosted trailer
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas are a mismatched pair in the action rom-com Ghosted, coming to Apple TV+ on April 21
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Much has been made of the resurgence of the romantic comedy, but perhaps we haven’t discussed enough the rise of an important subgenre: the action rom-com. Hollywood has produced some winners in its history, but flicks like The Lost City and Shotgun Wedding have been keeping the tradition alive lately. Now, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas are joining the canon (and contributing to their own canon of film team-ups) with Ghosted on Apple TV+, premiering April 21.
Ghosted is like Mr. And Mrs. Smith except one of them’s not a spy, or more accurately a reverse Knight And Day (de Armas is the Tom Cruise super-spy and Evans is the Cameron Diaz hapless civilian accidentally drawn into the other’s schemes; bonus points for also being from Boston). In any case, it’s two beautiful people making quips and punching bad guys. Plus, Amy Sedaris is in it! What more can you ask for?
Playing against type, Evans is a lovesick loser who decides to drop everything and pull a “grand romantic gesture” for a woman with whom he’s been on one date and then never responded to any of his many, many texts. (“No no, she didn’t ghost me, she just doesn’t have an international calling plan,” he insists. Sir, iMessage is still free on WiFi overseas.) De Armas is a sexy, enigmatic badass apparently known as “The Tax Man” (a role that previously belonged to Scarlett Johansson). She’s being hunted by Adrien Brody, who sets “every bounty hunter on the continent” after her. (Remember when it was Evans doing that to de Armas and Ryan Gosling in The Gray Man? Ah, memories.)
Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and Spider-Man scribes Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers aren’t exactly reinventing the wheel here, but Ghosted seems guaranteed to be an easy, high-octane good time. At the very least, this trailer has provided us with the image of Evans in disheveled formal attire, dukes up, saying, “I’m the boyfriend.” Swooning fans will dine out on that one for a long time. Let’s hope Ghosted does justice to the action rom-com revival.
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Yeeeaaah, she’s The Tax Maaan, and I’m working for no one but her.
I’m sure many people wouldn’t mind paying taxes to Ana de Armas.
I would totally declare the pennies on her thighs.
So it’s gender flipped ‘Knight and Day’ and/or ‘True Lies’.
It’s always a fun setup and these two do seem to always have chemistry together, but is he really a good cast for lovelorn schlub? I mean with that scruffy hair and jawline, I’d date him and I’m straight and male.
Its almost as bad as them pretending Kevin James would be with Leah Remini. In fact. this movie is one probably better suited to a Kevin James type to play the “schlub” not a guy who looks like a superhero.
Evans is the Cameron Diaz hapless civilian accidentally drawn into the other’s schemes …Cellular?
That’s what I was thinking!I love that film, Evans makes a great “in over his head but still muddling through” guy. And William H Macy makes a great Cop with dead-eye aim.
This now the third movie in the last few years that Chris Evans and Ana de Armas are in together, and I can’t say I blame either one of them.
JFC, I don’t know how studios sell this stuff aymore. It might have flown in the 80s or even 90s when people were free to just pick up their entire lives and – maybe – chase after a one night stand. Even the action part pushes the boundaries of any possbile beliefe and, again, would any kind of ‘love’ be worth it/ No one has time for this and I don’t think anyone will be amused by this level of fantasy 9even with the funny violence). I never look at TikTok anymore but, as harmful as it is, it’s far more interesting and you can watch it from anywhere.And about all of these 3 hour movies. People seem just fine with being fully entertained for 60 second, sigh.
Hot take: Ana de Armas is just Eiza González with less sex appeal.No, I did not rewatch Ambulance, leave me alone!
She just loves Boston guys.Also she has, like, a perfect face?
Calling it now: there will be no London in the movie when it comes out. My lawsuit is ready!
Ana de Armas’s face in the thumb nail looks like a barbie or a wax statue
Someone please explain: why is following someone across international borders after one date and no replies “a grand romantic gesture” and not, you know, a massive red flag marked Stalker?
Because that would be a way less funny/romantic movie?
Less funny, for certain, I’ll grant you. But movies eventually learned not to paint “he kept asking me out, until eventually I gave in” as the basis of a healthy romance, so why can’t they learn not to paint “I cut ties with him, but he hunted me down” the same way? (Yes, I know in this case it looks like de Armas is genuinely too busy to reply because of international espionage, but Evans doesn’t know that when he goes halfway round the world in pursuit of a woman who isn’t speaking to him. It’s creepy AF for someone to think that if a woman won’t talk to them, it can’t possibly be because she just isn’t interested.)
I think romance movies in general are kind of retrograde, but the people who like them seem to go in for all that. Maybe at some point they’ll get past that and have something looking a bit more like a healthy version of relationships but not until people stop voting with their dollars for this stuff to keep being made. I suppose with a few tweaks you could easily do this story without the “I’ve been obsessively texting this person and followed her across an ocean because I must have her” angle, but that’s not what they wrote, and that’s not what the studio paid for. Maybe we’ll see a time where this doesn’t get greenlit, or if it does they ask for some rewrites, but apparently 2023 is not that year that happens.
Has anyone ever seen Ana de Armas and Charisma Carpenter in the same room at the same time?
Yes…in my dreams…and it was glorious.
gross
No matter how amusing this series may be I’m not getting yet another streaming service just to watch it. I outlay more in the services I do have then I did when I was just paying for cable. Gotta draw a line somewhere.
It’s a movie, not a series. You can probably get a free trial and cancel after you watch. Even if not, Apple+ is only like $5/month.
Apple is pretty cheap as these things go. But since streaming services don’t require contracts, why not cancel one, pick up Apple for a few months to watch all the good stuff, and then cancel it and go back to Netflix or what have you? I initially was resistant for the same reasons you are, but if I hadn’t put Netflix on hold I’d have missed, among other things, Severance and Mythic Quest. So I’m glad I did.
So on the one hand this looks like a film without a single original thought, and perhaps any thought at all, in its pretty head….on the other hand, Ana De Armas grinning madly and having the time of her life while shooting mooks and kicking ass was the only interesting 10 minutes in No Time to Die so maybe I’m here for a film-length iteration of that?