Feb 18 2009NFL QBs and Child Nerds Have So Much To Learn About Each Other
Of all the awful body-swapping movies--and there are a lot, for some reason--this is definitely in the running for worst:
Ashton Kutcher is looking to tackle a football comedy for Paramount Pictures.Thesp is in final negotiations to star in the sports-themed pic "Traded," which had been developed at DreamWorks but became the property of Par following DreamWorks' exit in the fall.
Storycenters on a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies, then quickly learn valuable lessons about humility and courage.
An NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old geek switching bodies. Those two will learn so much from each other! Anyone can see why those two would switch bodies. Man, if I could have gotten into Troy Aikman's body as a 12-year-old nerd, I'd be so much wiser today. All that knowledge of being an adult paid to play a sport would really have really paid off somehow.
I think I would have preferred to see a car salesman trade bodies with a terminally-ill girl, or a master gardener switch places with a cat, but this NFL quarterback/middle school nerd combo seems like an equally non-arbitrary choice. And you have to save something for the sequel.
Ashton Kutcher to star in 'Traded' [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. NxIxCxKxMxAxNx - February 18, 2009 6:00 PM
What a douche.
2. Ans - February 18, 2009 8:26 PM
Need to add more movies to the body-switching category
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4. Mr. Jones - February 19, 2009 7:21 AM
So I imagine the kid/football character will automatically be benched because he doesn't know jack shit about all the complications of leading a football squad, much less performing the tremendous athletic feats borne from years of intense training. That would be pretty boring.
Or somehow he will "magically" know how to do all this stuff?
There's suspension of disbelief, and then there is simply being a fucking moron... even for a kid's movie.
5. In Rem - February 19, 2009 9:09 AM
I'm not sure which is harder to believe: What Mr. Jones was concerned about or Kutcher as a football player. Oh, waitaminute... Kutcher is going to play the 12-year-old boy, isn't he?
Nevermind.
6. B - February 19, 2009 9:58 AM
I can't stand Kutcher. The only thing I ever liked him on was That 70's Show and that's because they mostly made fun of him.