It’s hard to believe, but Goldie Hawn hasn’t been in a feature film since 2002’s “The Banger Sisters.” Next year, however, she’s coming back to the big screen and starring with Amy Schumer in an as-of-yet untitled action comedy. Not much has been revealed about the movie, other than it’s written by “The Heat” and “Ghostbusters” scribe Katie Dippold and directed by Jonathan Levine, who brought us “Warm Bodies,” but now a few more details have spilled out.
While promoting “Ghostbusters,” Dippold described the plot for the forthcoming film in an interview with Collider, and it certainly sounds ambitious.
“[The film] is based off my mom. When I was younger, my mom was always very adventurous. Her and my dad divorced when I was in college, and she’s gotten more concerned about safety. She wants to make sure the doors are locked. I feel like there used to be a more adventurous spirit in her. She’s still lovely and awesome. She’s like, ‘I’m 66 years old, just leave me alone right now.’ So, we got her to sign up for a dating profile on eHarmony, and it was the most phoned-in profile I’ve ever seen in my life,” Dippold explained. “She complained it didn’t work, so I looked and she had no photo and she had a typo in the first sentence, but she’s a very smart woman. And then, she got mad in one of her answers and used all caps. I was like, ‘What were you doing? You were purposely phoning this in!’ In all fairness to her, she’s like, ‘I’m happy, let me be.’ But I started daydreaming about, what if I took her on a crazy vacation somewhere, and then I took us off the beaten path, just to shake things up. So then, I started thinking about a movie version of that. So, the movie is that.”
“She gets taken off the beaten path, but then everything the mother feared is correct. So, it’s then basically trying to get to an American embassy through the Amazon rainforest and whatnot,” she added. “I still need to take my mom on this trip, and I swear I’m going to do it, this year. At the end of production, I will take my mom on vacation and not just mock her through this movie.”
Last year’s “Trainwreck” made Amy Schumer a household name and launched her career into the stratosphere. With the talent involved in this new film, everything is shaping up for Schumer’s star to keep rising and for the movie-going public to welcome back Goldie Hawn.
The untitled 20th Century Fox film will be released sometime in 2017.