Keanu Reeves Spreads His Comedy Wings as Aziz Ansari's 'Budget Guardian Angel' in “Good” “Fortune” Trailer

Keanu Reeves wants to thief mislaid souls find Good Fortune.

The John Wick action star, 60, plays a guardian angel successful nan first teaser trailer for nan comedy, which is written and directed by Aziz Ansari. Good Fortune besides stars Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer and Sandra Oh.

A synopsis says nan movie follows a "well-meaning but alternatively inept angel named Gabriel" who "meddles successful nan lives of a struggling gig worker (Ansari) and a able task capitalist (Rogen)."

Reeves antecedently recounted suffering an wounded connected nan group of Good Fortune, telling The Late Show host Stephen Colbert that his knee "cracked for illustration a murphy chip" filming pinch Ansari, 42, and Rogen, 43, successful a acold plunge.

“I was loving it, I was opinionated there, and we decorativeness nan scene, and you cognize erstwhile you’re acold and you’re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it complete your caput and you do nan acold shuffle?" he recalled successful July 2024.

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Reeves added, "I’m doing nan acold shuffle successful this room that had protective carpets down and then, conscionable here, location was for illustration a small pocket, and my ft sewage caught successful nan pouch successful nan shuffle, and past I went [down], but [my knee] didn’t follow. And then, successful slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but past my knee grounded because it’s sewage immoderate stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella — kneecap — cracked for illustration a murphy chip.”

Ansari told Entertainment Weekly that he hopes Good Fortune marks a return for R-rated comedies to beryllium enjoyed successful theaters.

"I consciousness for illustration group are like, 'Oh, nary 1 goes to comedies and theaters anymore.' It's like, well, they haven't really been making a batch of them, you cognize what I mean?" he said. "So I dream this movie shows that group do want to spot comedies astatine theaters and that it conscionable leads to group making s---ty ripoffs of Good Fortune."

Reeves told EW of moving pinch nan Parks and Recreation alum, “Aziz is great. A awesome writer, director, actor. I had specified a awesome acquisition moving pinch him."

Good Fortune is successful theaters Oct. 17