Normally when Hollywood does body-swapping comedy (which they do far more than perhaps they ought to), it’s about a young person who swaps places with an adult for a while. That’s been the standard for everything from Freaky Friday and Big to 13 Going On 30 and 17 Again, but now Universal is planning a comedy where two grown men get to find out how the other lives.
THR reports that Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman and teaming for Change Up, where Bateman will play a responsible family man, who switches bodies with his best friend, a lazy man-child, played by Reynolds. Unsurprising both learn a few unexpected lessons about how the other lives. Although you can pretty much write the rest of the script yourself in your head just from that brief synopsis, it’s the sort of high concept premise Tinsel Town loves.
The film will be written by The Hangover’s Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, so exactly plenty of R-rated laughs. David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) will direct, although as yet no production date has been set (Reynolds is busy with Green Lantern for the next few months, so it may be a while before they get round to making this one).