Reeves, Nicholson, Keaton Form Love Triangle

[Monday, December 2nd, 2002]
Keanu Reeves will fill out a love triangle with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in an untitled comedy that marks one of three films he will shoot next year, reports Variety.

Reeves will also star in "Thumbsucker," an indie adaptation of the Walter Kirn novel, and then move on to the previously announced "Constantine," the adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic "Hellblazer" at Warner Bros.

The untitled comedy was written by Nancy Meyers ("What Women Want"), who will also direct the Columbia project.

Reeves plays a doctor caring for Nicholson, who suffers a heart attack at the house of his young girlfriend's mother. While there, Nicholson's character falls in love with the mom (Keaton). Reeves' character also has designs on the woman and doesn't care that she's 20 years older.

Keaton, with whom Meyers worked in "Father of the Bride" and its sequel, has long been expected to play the man magnet. Frances McDormand is now in negotiations to play Keaton's sister.

"There is a bit of a duel between the men, and she is thrown and flattered by the doctor's attention," said Meyers, who fixed on Reeves for the role after a few meetings.

"He is funny, charming and beautiful to look at, and after doing 'Matrix' for an entire year, it will be fun for him to do a dialogue picture that is comedic and fun. This is a departure from what we're used to seeing in movies, with the older guy and the ridiculously young girl that makes everybody roll their eyes. I find this both hopeful and positive for women."

The quirky "Thumbsucker" follows the misadventures of an orally fixated man whose thumbsucking habit is cured through hypnosis.

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