Amazon hops into body swap movie with Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston
The untitled film will be directed by Palm Springs’ Max Barbakow
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You know who has it easy? Julia Roberts. She never has to fight for anything, like Jennifer Aniston does. But, at the same time, nobody takes Julia Roberts seriously like they do Jennifer Aniston! Sometimes we wish they would just switch places and learn to appreciate what they have! The grass isn’t always greener, after all. (We don’t necessarily believe any of that, we’re just presenting a comedic premise that will soon make more sense.)
Well, if this sounds like a fun plot for a movie, we have good news: Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston are making a body swap comedy with Palm Springs director Max Barbakow. Amazon Studios apparently won “a heated auction among four other studios and streamers,” to this seems like a pretty hot project in Hollywood this weekend. We don’t really know anything about it, but Deadline suggests that the studios are more excited about “two-hander star vehicles” these days after Ticket To Paradise (which also featured Julia Roberts). It seems like that movie, as hoped, has reminded everyone that it’s possible to build a film around the fact that it has two famous people in it and not much else—no offense to Ticket To Paradise, but it was 100 percent sold to the moviegoing public on the names of its stars.
This is a fun move for Barbakow after Palm Springs, which was a very fun take on the classic Groundhog Day time loop premise. If his next movie is going to be a (presumably) fun take on body swap comedies, what other vintage comedy genre will come next? A “funny people join the army” movie? An “older person has to go back to school” movie? A classic Odd Couple setup where they don’t body swap? Something with Muppets? A Ghostbusters?
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Well that’s just too crazy! How is the 53 year old attractive white woman going to be able to act like the 55 year old attractive white woman! And how is the 55 year old attractive white woman going to act like the 53 year old attractive white woman!Think of the fish out of water situations they’ll both be in and have no idea how to handle!
I hope ANOTHER Jennifer Aniston shows up to set them straight:
You just don’t get it. One is a blonde. The other is a red head…hijinx ensue.
Fingers crossed that this is actually going to be an Altered Carbon spinoff.
While both actresses can be said to be “stacked”, I don’t think that means the same thing as in the Altered Carbon sense.
Jennifer Aniston plays Virginia Vidaura, about to be needlecast to Adoracion to put down a potential insurgency along with a detachment of Envoys. Instead, a mixup with the resleeving equipment has her swap bodies with Becky Harlan, an aristo on the outs with her planet-owning family. Can these two navigate the snarky politics of immortal colony rulers and the deadly rebellion against them? Tune in to find out!
The untitled film will be directed by Palm Springs’ Max BarbakowSince Barbakow lives in Los Angeles, I’m guessing you neglected to put ‘Palm Springs’ in italics.
Have we learned nothing from The Change-Up?You know, the one where the wryly sarcastic guy swapped bodies with the wryly sarcastic guy?Body swap comedies only work if the two people swapping are significantly different. Ryan Reynolds swapping with Jason Bateman didn’t work because their comedic personas are too similar.Now if Julia Roberts was swapping with, say, Aubrey Plaza or Jane Lynch, you might have something there.
You’re not wrong, but — now, hear me out — what if Aubrey Plaza swapped bodies with Jane Lynch? I’d for sure what that movie.
Can’t they just take their Face/Off?
*Caruso puts on sunglasses*
*Daltrey screams*
Hey, Jen…both turkeys are done.
They’d better call the movie Hot Swap.