{"id":2004807,"date":"2025-09-07T22:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2004807"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:49:37","slug":"good-fortune-how-aziz-ansari-wrote-a-budget-guardian-angel-for-keanu-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/good-fortune-how-aziz-ansari-wrote-a-budget-guardian-angel-for-keanu-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good Fortune\u2019: How Aziz Ansari Wrote a \u2018Budget Guardian Angel\u2019 for Keanu Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lionsgate<\/a>\u2019s upcoming dramedy \u201cGood Fortune<\/a>\u201d has been heavily sold on Keanu Reeves<\/a> giving up the guns of John Wick<\/a> for the comically tiny wings of Gabriel, a socially awkward angel who tries to give a man an \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/a>\u201d-esque lesson even though that\u2019s way above his pay grade.<\/p>\n

At TIFF 2025, the film\u2019s writer, director and star Aziz Ansari<\/a> told TheWrap<\/a>\u2019s Joe McGovern<\/a> that his work on his Netflix<\/a> series \u201cMaster of None<\/a>\u201d prepared him when writing Gabriel for Reeves, showing him how to convert his conversations with his cast into lines that help the actors put their voice into the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read Elia Kazan<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lionsgate\u2019s upcoming dramedy \u201cGood Fortune\u201d has been heavily sold on Keanu Reeves giving up the guns of John Wick for the comically tiny wings of Gabriel, a socially awkward angel who tries to give a man an \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d-esque lesson even though that\u2019s way above his pay grade. At TIFF 2025, the film\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2004808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2004807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Good-Fortune-How-Aziz-Ansari-Wrote-a-\u2018Budget-Guardian-Angel.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}