Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen join Aziz Ansari for comedy ‘Good Fortune’

HOLLYWOOD — Keanu Reeves is officially an angel.

At least he plays one in the new comedy, “Good Fortune.”

It’s a film written, produced, directed and also starring Aziz Ansari.

In the film, an angel takes a man who’s struggling under his wings to help the guy get back to a better place in his life.

Keanu Reeves is the angel. Aziz Ansari is the guy who needs a break and Seth Rogen plays a rich guy who hires him for odd jobs. When the angel oversteps his bounds to try and prove a point, suddenly, the poor guy is rich, the rich guy is poor and they’re all in trouble!

Reeves was happy to take on this angelic role for a couple of reasons. “First of all, working with Aziz and working with Seth and the script, you know, the story,” Reeves said, plus “the angel Gabriel is a beautiful role.” He went on to say, “It was just a lot of fun to play an angel who turns into a human and, you know, has his challenges and overcomes them and appreciates humanity. So it was just a lot fun.”

Ansari notes there’s “some tricky subject matter” here since the comedy deals with his character dealing with life not going his way. “To me, that was a fun challenge to get all that stuff to make that very real but at the same time, you’re laughing. And that was a fun challenge and I feel like we pulled it off,” he said.

Along the way, the film makes stops all over Los Angeles with places Angelenos may recognize. According to director Ansari, “We definitely wanted to show a particular vision of L.A. and the neighborhoods we picked and, you know, all these locations. There was a lot of thought behind it all..”

“Good Fortune” is rated “R.” It’s new to theaters this weekend.