Keanu Reeves in talks to star in Ruben Östlund’s next film

Liam Mathews
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Call it “The Matrix of Sadness.” 

“Triangle of Sadness” writer-director Ruben Östlund has tapped Keanu Reeves to star in his next film, the disaster comedy “The Entertainment System Is Down,” Variety reports. 

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Reeves will join an international ensemble cast in the Swedish filmmaker’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated dark comedy “Triangle of Sadness.” While the cast is not set and exact plot details are being kept under wraps, “The Entertainment System Is Down” is expected to be a satirical, class-conscious, transportation-based black comedy, similar to “Triangle of Sadness” but even more ambitious. It’s set on a long international flight where, yes, the entertainment system is down, and the passengers react poorly. 

“They don’t have the screens that we are so used to in our contemporary world,” Östlund told Variety in 2022. “So it’s going to be like a study of how human beings interact in this little laboratory that is a plane. It will look at how modern human beings are wrecked under these circumstances.” He added that studies have shown that the risk of “air rage” increases fourfold when economy-class passengers have to board through first or business class. 

Östlund won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his two previous films, “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness.” The latter was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. 

Reeves is the star of the “Matrix” and “John Wick” franchises, and will next be seen in the “John Wick” spinoff “Ballerina” starring Ana de Armas.

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