Ryan Reynolds may have proven his action skills in Blade Trinity and… Foolproof, I guess, but he’s keeping those Van Wilder comic abilities honed as well.
Like most wage-slaves, Reynolds and his chums aren’t fond of their immediate superiors at their places of employment, so they decide to get proactive in the black comedy Horrible Bosses (they should probably have a meeting to discuss a new title while they’re at it). I haven’t heard squat about this project before now and IMDB came up snake-eyes (and yes, I played the little game where you try to get to people only through clicking links, sorta like Six Degrees of Whoever Is On the Main Page), but Reynolds describes the flick as in the vein of Hitchcock’s classic Strangers on a Train, and at least that funny. “Three guys decide to off each other’s boss,” he elucidates, “So that they have an alibi.”
Now that he’s done ventriloquizing for little green CGI men and has washed away the stench of The Stepford Wives remake, Frank Oz will get behind the camera for the movie, which sounds a bit like Office Space with a body count. “It’s a return for Oz to that sort of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels vibe he used to do,” Reynolds says, praying he gets the Bowfinger Frank and not the Housesitter Frank. And since we’re speaking Frankly, what the hell ever happened to his plans for directing the movie based on Brian Michael Bendis’ great comic book Powers?
Reynolds also has the restaurant comedy Waiting in the wings and is getting ready to butt heads with The Rock (good luck) in the mismatched buddy flick Ride Along, and apparently still plans to wedge himself into the body-hugging scarlet outfit for the speed demon in David Goyer’s planned feature of DC hero The Flash (obvious irony alert: a movie about the fastest man on the planet is taking a long time to get made).