It really was only a matter of time before a film was put into production that directly emulates The Hangover in style and content. Universal has their hands on what’s potentially the first of these knock-offs: a spec script from Ellen Rapoport entitled Desperados. The film will be produced my Mark Gordon and Jason Blum, and is being called a starring vehicle for actress Isla Fisher.
The story for the film revolves around a woman who “sends an indignant e-mail to her new beau, who’s gone silent after they have sex. When she discovers he’s comatose in a Mexican hospital, she races south of the border with her friends in tow to intercept the e-mail before he recovers.”
So it’s essentially The Hangover again. With a female-oriented cast. And I’m sure it will sell like gangbusters.
Fisher last starred in Confessions of a Shopaholic, but I’m not entirely sure that she’s set for the film, which also needs to find itself a director before it gets pushed into production.
