Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Keanu Reeves Is: Plastic Man

In what promises to be the funniest thing ever produced, Keanu Reeves has been cast to play Eels O'Brien, otherwise known as Plastic Man, in the Wachowski's Plastic Man. Everyone knows the Wachowski brothers and Keanu are a team that can't miss, and Plastic Man is gauranteed to prove that once again. If you thought you saw energy and adventure in the Matrix movies, wait until you see Plastic Man "stretch" into action.


(This is the legit intro)

Now if that doesn't seem like a comic book adventure that should be turned into a movie starring Keanu Reeves, I don't know what is. This is the role Keanu was born to play. He seems so out of his element in all of his movies, this is sure to be no exception. I can see the look on his face now the first time he learns his body can stretch. It will be a look of bewilderment, such as the look that is always on his face and can be seen in every movie he's in (i.e. when Rufus shows up in the phone booth in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, when he finds out the bus can't go under 60 mph in Speed, when he finds out he has to coach a group of underpriveledged children in Hard Ball, when he learns his new friend Patrick Swayze is the bank robber in Point Break, and when he gets a package and it's a phone and then the phone rings and it's Morpheus in The Matrix), and will be followed by the quote, "Wow, I can, like, stretch." After that point the story pretty much writes itself. Whether this is to be a comedy or an action movie it will make no difference, because this movie is going to be fucking hilarious either way.

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