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Chandler Bing, that’s who!
Matthew Perry has been tapped to play a grown-up version of co-star Zac Efron in the new teen comedy, 17. The movie revolves around a middle-aged father — yup, Matthew — who wakes up to find he’s 17 — yup, Zac — again and enrolls in high school to get closer to his own kids.
Matthew Perry as an older Zac Efron? That’s the best Casting could do? Huh. I guess Rob Lowe turned the role down.
Words can’t express how excited I am to see this movie. Such a novel idea! And if Freaky Friday, Big, 13 Going on 30, The Hot Chick, Prelude to a Kiss and Vice Versa have taught us anything, it’s that body-switching and time machine madness happens more often than you’d think. So I’m delighted the writers of 17 have decided to use this ORIGINAL idea and educate us about this apparently widespread epidemic. In fact, I am dying to learn how I can wake up in Adriana Lima’s body.
Posted by Candy ♦ November 28, 2007
At 12:56 pm Lynn said:
Zac Efron reminds me of a younger Jared Leto.
November 28, 2007
At 1:00 pm Jenn said:
so is it a rule that young celebs must have a wonky eye?
November 28, 2007
At 6:40 pm Jane said:
Matthew Perry looks like her
overdosed on the spray-on-tan.
He must be taking ‘tanning’ tips
from Orange Lohan.
Yuck.
November 28, 2007
At 6:40 pm librarian kathleen said:
I’ve always hated this particular trope
in sf movies/literature.
Plus, there is no way that Zac could turn
into Matthew. (The nose is wrong, for one
thing.)
Adore science fiction, but the time travel
thing is just an irritant.
Only my opinion,though…
November 28, 2007
At 6:40 pm Jane said:
OOPS! I MEANT ‘Matthew Perry looks
like HE’ …………
ARGH!
November 28, 2007
At 12:08 am Holy Terror said:
library Kathleen says: Adore science fiction, but the time travel thing is just an irritant.
Only my opinion,though…
I agree Kathleen, it always raises more questions than anything else. I always come away from such a movie going, “But if they did that, wouldn’t it have changed this?” I was physically dizzy after Jean Claude Van Damme’s Time Cop, but it may not have had as much to do with the plot as the acting!
December 1, 2007