Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, and Pedro Pascal may finally lead a quality rom-com
The Avengers, Madame Web, and The Last Of Us actors will get their rom-com on in the upcoming A24 film
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Chris Evans, Dakota Johnson, and Pedro Pascal may finally star in a romcom deserving of their talents. According to Variety, the three actors are all in talks to make up what we’re guessing will be a very rich, very beautiful love triangle in Materialists, the upcoming sophomore project from Past Lives director Celine Song.
(Quick sidebar: some of our colleagues insist that Chris Evans has already been in a great rom-com—2011's What’s Your Number?, directed by the one and only Mark Mylod. Yes, the very same man behind The Menu, some of the best episodes of Succession, and the upcoming second season of The Last Of Us. Maybe it’s time to give that one a rewatch!)
The specific roles Evans, Johnson, and Pascal are circling have not yet been revealed, but the film is rumored to be about a high-end matchmaker in New York who strikes up a relationship with a wealthy man while still harboring feelings for the broke waiter/aspiring actor she left behind (via Deadline).
Song also wrote the script for the romcom, which will be produced by A24, Killer Films, and 2AM. Song worked with all three banners on her first project, Past Lives, which became an award-season darling after premiering at Sundance last year. The Oscar-nominated film stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends who maintain a tender relationship across decades and continents.
Chris Evans, who used to play Captain America, did take a recent stab at the rom-com with Ghosted, a movie even he knows wasn’t that good. Johnson and Pascal are just starting their respective Marvel careers, with parts in Madame Web and probably Fantastic Four respectively. (While neither Pascal nor Marvel have officially confirmed the rumor, a quickly-deleted listing from SAG-AFTRA suggested that the actor would “soon begin production on Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four.” We’ll see.) At least if nothing else, the actors can swap stories about that particular shared experience to build chemistry on set.
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Wasn’t she in that thing about Grey people or something?
the 1-2 punch of ghosted and the gray man performed a permanent charisma debuff to chris evans.
I haven’t seen either yet, but I thought I recall Gray Man getting at least decent reviews… was it actually bad? Genuinely curious.
“a high-end matchmaker in New York who strikes up a relationship with a wealthy man while still harboring feelings for the broke waiter/aspiring actor she left behind”And of course she’s 8 years younger than one, and 14 years younger than the other. All I have to say is if someone is 8 or 14 years older than you and still a broke/aspiring anything, let him go, girl.
Can’t help but notice you’re cool with the rich guy, but of course.
I’m cool with the guy who is an adult man with a career and stability and whose retirement plan is not using my retirement plan. If he’s in his 40s and still broke and aspiring, he’s not for me. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.In either case, the main thing I was commenting on is the continued pattern of putting men with women who are a decade younger than them as their love interest, which I can’t help but notice you’re cool with, but of course.
How’s life back there in the 1950s?I’m not, but thanks for assuming that based on your tradcon gender roles you’re still enamoured with.I like how you specify that women don’t have to be the adults in the relationship with a stable carer and that it’s OK for a younger woman to hook up with an older man as long as he can pay for her. I mean, “guy is older and richer than girl he gets with and must provide and care for her” is a way more pervasive rom-com cliché than with the gender roles swapped – it’s pretty much every rom com ever made. Have you never seen a rom com before?
No, I think you’re confused about what went on in the 1950s. In the 1950s, middle class women women often didn’t work and weren’t able to earn their own money. The men worked and earned money because women weren’t allowed in most high-paying jobs. This was not a good situation for women.It is currently 2024. I am allowed in most high-paying jobs (not with pay equity of course, but that notwithstanding). I do earn my own money and I provide for my children including college savings for them and retirement for me. I make enough money for that. I don’t make enough money to also support a partner who has made it to mid-life and has no career or money. That he might someday “make it” is not a gamble I am financially prepared to make at this time in my life and I don’t want to have to support another adult in retirement with what I have saved for my personal retirement.“I like how you specify that women don’t have to be the adults in the relationship with a stable carer [sic] and that it’s OK for a younger woman to hook up with an older man as long as he can pay for her.”I didn’t say that at all. You’re just an idiot who can’t read, which is probably why you’re still broke and aspiring.
Yeah, I pinged on that age difference right away. Especially when it’s not just one but two love interests that are older. That said, Johnson is 8 years older than Evan’s actual wife, so it probably doesn’t even register for him.
“Johnson is 8 years older than Evan’s actual wife”Oh geez. I’m not gonna lie. That’s a little disappointing to hear about him.Anyway I have no problem with Dakota Johnson but there are plenty of perfectly lovely female actors in their 40s for whom this role would have made sense, and I have no problem with Evans and Pascal but there are plenty of perfectly lovely male actors in their 30s who could have made sense, but yeah let’s show a love triangle where one of them looks like her dad.Remember This Means War with a love triangle between Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, and Tom Hardy? All three of them are within 4 years of each other, and Witherspoon is the oldest by a year! It is possible, Hollywood.
Dakota is such an overrated actress…I’d say her casting makes this show a definite “no watch”, but the premise is equally off-putting.
yeah, cutting her out and having a rom-com about a pascal/evans romance sounds like a better movie honestly