Cameron Diaz enjoyed her biggest hit in a while with last year’s **What Happens In Vegas **– so it’s no surprise to find that she’s in final negotiations to return to the rom-com well with Swingles.
In fact, the premise makes it sound like it’s cut from the same mean-spirited, trashy cloth as that Ashton Kutcher team-up, with Diaz set to play a sharp-tongued woman who becomes the new wingman for a guy she can’t stand, after he’s dumped by his fiancée.
Two guesses what happens in the end. No, not that, that’s not legal. Try again. Yep, you got it. Still, at least Diaz is always good value. Right?
Duncan Birmingham and Jeff Roda wrote the screenplay, and we have to hope that it gets more innovative and amusing than the title, which simply combines ‘Swingers’ with ‘Singles’. Mind you, if the end result is a movie that even approaches the quality of those two movies, we’ll eat any cynical words that may have appeared in the paragraphs above.
Paramount’s stumping up the readies for this one.