Keanu Reeves to Star in Film by Polarizing Director

After the Matrix trilogy, Keanu Reeves experienced a bit of a journey through the desert. Fortunately, thanks to the success of the John Wick saga, the Canadian actor now aged 59 and now back on the forefront of the cinema scene, but not only. Recently, we remember his role as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, but that's not all in terms of video games because Keanu Reeves should play Shadow in Sonic 3. While the actor still has a bright future ahead of him, we should finally see him again in a title role only in 2025, at least, in the film of a director who is at the very least sulphurous.

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A sulphurous director

If the name Ruben Östlund may not mean anything to you, you have surely heard of one of his films like The Square or Without Filter, two works for which he won two Palmes d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, just that. For more than ten years now, the 50-year-old Swedish director has built a solid reputation for being sulphurous with his films which paint a cruel and cynical portrait of our worldespecially from Western society to be precise, with an often corrosive humor.

To give concrete examples, we remind you that The Square stages an artistic experience in Sweden which ends up blurring the boundaries between art, relationship to public space and the animal part which resides in each of us. For Unfiltered, released in 2022, the initial point of a yacht trip that goes wrong due to the storm ends up becoming the setting for a concrete representation of class struggle. In short, it is a critical cinema of our society, but always with humor and it is not his next film which should be able to count on Keanu Reeves in the title role which will deviate from the rule.

An original scenario conducive to chaos

So according to Variety, Ruben Östlund is reportedly in talks with Keanu Reeves to play the lead role in his next film The Entertainment System Is Down. Concretely, it would be a new social satire which would take place this time on a plane where the video devices for watching films no longer work, which ends up creating chaos on the plane. We don't know much more about the project currently, nor about the concrete role that Keanu Reeves would have in it, but vu the director's previous films, we still have an idea of ​​what to expect. However, you will have to be patient since the feature film is only in pre-production at the moment.