They've done thriller with a touch of romance in Jan de Bont's 1994 action classic Speed, and romance with a touch (yes, a very very delicate touch)
They’ve done thriller with a touch of romance in Jan de Bont’s 1994 action classic Speed, and romance with a touch (yes, a very very delicate touch) of thriller in Alejandro Agresti’s 2006 supernatural weepy The Lake House, but now Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are reuniting to make an out and out romantic thriller at last. Yes, per THR‘s reporting, Keanu and Sandy B are teaming up for the first time in nearly two decades to make an as-yet-untitled, “propulsive” fresh movie together for Amazon MGM Studios.
Written by Jackie scribe and Zero Day co-creator Noah Oppenheim, Bullock and Reeves’ reunion feature is, you’ll be delighted to hear, shrouded in secrecy at the moment: not only is the title being withheld for now, but the plot for the movie is also being kept entirely hush-hush, too. Now, on the one hand, that means that we’ve got very little to go on in terms of parsing out what exact form this romantic thriller is going to take; on the other, it also means that our hopes that this could in fact turn out to be Speed 3, while wildly speculative, are not entirely dashed just yet. Hell, Speed‘s producer Mark Gordon is even on board, meaning we’ve already got three key players from de Bont’s Die Hard-on-a-bus joint on the table — and Reeves and Bullock have both said in the past couple of years that they’re still more than keen for another ride behind the wheel of a vehicle trapped in a state of perpetual motion.
Whether this does end up being a return to that nostalgic fan favourite or, as is more likely, an original fresh joint that’ll give its stars a chance to strut their action stuff — and rekindle their electric on-screen chemistry — once again remains to be seen. But whatever ‘Untitled Amazon MGM Studios Romantic Thriller’ winds up actually being called, consider us all aboard for this one already. Title suggestion if it’s not Speed 3, though: The Love Story That Couldn’t Slow Down.
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