Olivia Wilde Joins Ryan Reynolds And Jason Bateman In ‘The Change Up’
We haven’t heard anything serious aboutThe Change-Upsince March. It is a body-switching comedy to be directed byDavid Dobkin(Wedding Crashers) withRyan ReynoldsandJason Batemanas the guys who switch meat suits to comedic effect. Now there’s a leading lady: the increasingly in-demandOlivia Wilde.
Deadlinesays that Wilde will be a law firm co-worker of Jason Bateman’s, and the catalyst for the body switch he makes with his slacker best friend, Ryan Reynolds. How do they make the switch? Not important, at least not now.
We’ll see Wilde often in the next year: in addition to her role onHouse, she’s the female lead inTron Legacy, has a part inThe Next Three Days, shows up in the satireButter, and will play a pivotal role in the Jon Favreau movieCowboys and Aliens.
And to switch gears to Ryan Reynolds, about whom we seem to be writing several stories per day, there’s another bit of news. Reynolds is going back to TV, but only as a producer. NBC picked upMayors of Casterbridge, a comedy written byCraig Doylethat has Reynolds as exec producer. The description of the show so far is “Old SchoolmeetsGran Torino,” if you’re able to decipher that.
If not, here’s more: it’s about “four elder statesmen of a classic American neighborhood who have their community threatened by a young upstart determined on making Casterbridge just another homogenized tract home complex. These four men band together to restore their neighborhood to its glory days, while helping each other take on the new challenges in their life.?”
Reynolds says the show “aims to spotlight the less explored sexagenarian in all his vitality, rage, corrosive wit and bottomless immaturity.” Which, actually, I can totally get behind. [Deadline]
