Kill Hollywood: Seven Figures Paid For A Ryan Reynolds In Drag Script

By Mark Lorenz on October 18th, 2009

The # of times Reynolds appears shirtless is directly proportional to how stabby the plot will make you.

Here we will bring you another tale in the annals of the idea-less cluster-hump that is Hollywood. Again, despite Hollywood basically putting a freeze on buying new scripts from new writers en masse, Working Title Pictures paid seven figures for a script whose hook point was Ryan Reynolds in drag.

I’ll repeat that. Allan Loeb, the genius that brought you a bunch of white kids from MIT in 21, or the Jennifer Aniston comedy where she impregnates herself with a baster, just sold a pitch that has been done 100 times. Where a man must disguise himself as a woman to befriend his ex to win her back. Okay, barring the fact that this concept has been done a billion times in 1996, when they made Mrs. Doubtfire, realistically, what modern woman would go, “Oh, you’ve been wearing rubber camel-toe and a bra to talk to me, because you love me so much? I have room in my life for you. That’s not at all crazier than a monkey with grenades.”

This is the most recent of Ryan Reynold’s ridiculous film announcements. Also in that group is the fact that he’ll be playing two different superheroes in movies that will more than likely be just two years apart. Two different superheroes. Because that’s how stupid we are as an audience.

Ryan Reynolds is like the thinking woman’s Ben Affleck. He needs to be mocked more.