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Pajiba Exclusive: Isla Fisher and Ashton Kutcher Set for The Makedown

Oh, Isla. Why? / Dustin Rowles

TV Reviews | November 10, 2009 | Comments (17)

Two of the most magnificent redheads in Hollywood, Amy Adams and Isla Fisher, had their breakthrough roles in 2005 (Fisher in Wedding Crashers and Adams in Junebug). For a while there, they were perhaps not just equally beloved, but often confused for one another (quick: without looking it up, which one starred in Talladega Nights?). Of course, in the end, Adams went one way (Doubt, Charlie Wilson’s War, Enchanted, Julie and Julia) while Fisher went in a completely different direction (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Hot Rod, Definitely, Maybe).

And despite displaying a modicum of actressin’ talent in The Lookout, it nevertheless looks as though Isla Fisher will continue down the same silly-premised romantic-comedy path. According to our inside source, The Hollywood Cog, Fisher has signed on to The Makedown, alongside Ashton Kutcher, for Mandalay Pictures (this, of course, is not a surprise for Kutcher, who has never made anything but these blandly fluffy films).

The Makedown, based on Gitty Daneshvari’s chick-lit novel of the same name, is about Anna Norton (Fisher), who was at the bottom of the social totem pole in high school — she was fat, slovenly, and constantly tormented by her peers. However, she grows up nice (she turns into Isla Fisher, after all) and procures herself a handsome boyfriend (Kutcher). However, Norton’s persistent insecurity compels her to give her boyfriend a secret reverse makeover, so he doesn’t see her inner fatty and leave her for someone else.

Simply put, it sounds like a movie that Ashton Kutcher would star in and, unfortunately, that Isla Fisher would continue to lower herself to be in. I guess all the prestige roles for lovely redheads went to Amy Adams.


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Comments

Every time I see Ashton Kutcher in one of those fucking Nikon commercials, I want to murder the entire universe.

Isla, darlin', you are small and adorable and seem relatively sharp. Fire your agent and get your shit together.

Posted by: TK at November 10, 2009 2:46 PM

I have a little stupid crush on Ashton still. (Don't tell TK!) Stupid loins.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverpuppet at November 10, 2009 2:52 PM

I love Isla, but really? Think about her significant....something. Sacha Baron Cohen has sucked the cool right outta the girl.

And, Ashton.....Well, Butterfly Effect was a frickin' mess, but it showed he could SORTA act. He'll never be anything but Kelso to me...and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Posted by: dammitjanet at November 10, 2009 2:58 PM

She's terrible. Always has been. Pretty, but terrible. Say hi to the next Kate Hudson.

Posted by: figgy at November 10, 2009 3:05 PM

Dude, Where's My Car is severely underrated. I'm not joking. The story may be dumb as hell but it's coherent and follows through to a logical conclusion in the end. This is relative of course, given the aliens and all. And at least Ashton Kutcher embraces his inner idiot, unlike some other actors I could name. *cough* Keanu *cough*

Posted by: katy at November 10, 2009 3:23 PM

AvB, I'll totally split him with you! I can't help it, I want to do things to him...

Posted by: Lainey at November 10, 2009 3:31 PM

Right, Lainey? Dirty, disgusting things.

(We can keep him in your basement, right? I don't know if pseudo-Mr. vB would be down with that...)

Posted by: Anna von Beaverpuppet at November 10, 2009 3:33 PM

She gives here cute boyfriend a secret reverse makeover. What the hell is that? Does she throw acid in his face? Hum, not so secret. Does she rub shit on his face and tell him it's a mud mask?

Posted by: BWeaves at November 10, 2009 4:01 PM

Aren't we done with Kutcher yet? Shouldn't he go help Demi get out of the oxygen rejuvenation tank or bathe one of his step-daughters or something?

Posted by: Cindy at November 10, 2009 4:24 PM

Yeah, no, I'm not done with him yet. I need a few more minutes, in fact...

Posted by: Lainey at November 10, 2009 4:32 PM

I liked Definitely, Maybe.

And I still hold out hope that Isla Fisher will go on to bigger and better things. But that may just be my patriotism talking (I like seeing Aussies do well. Gives me hope for the rest of us).

Posted by: Daniel Hall at November 10, 2009 6:06 PM

Wow, don't you guys get it. Isla is doing the best she can do. She gets mediocre roles because she's just not that great an actress. She was 32 years old before she got her first starring role. Compare that to Gwyneth Paltrow or Kate Hudson's careers. 32 is like 60 in actess years where only the truly gifted are working past 40-45. Confessions would have killed her career if she weren't with Sacha Baron Cohen. He hasn't sucked the cool out of her; he's made it possible for her to be a B movie queen and that's more than she'd be without him.

Posted by: Anon at November 10, 2009 6:33 PM

I liked Definitely Maybe too.

Isla Fisher is at the top of my list of celebrities I could sleep with and get a free pass from Mrs. Rubble44 to be. She's hotter than hell and I know BoratBrunoAliG ain't stretching that thing out.

As for the movie....anything Kutcher does on film is a shit sandwich, extra dingleberries, so I assume she's going for the paycheck. If male actors can do it all the time, you go and get yours whilst you still have the hotness, Isla, I ain't gonna see it, but I'll look at you on the poster and nod knowingly, like Shopaholic.

There are so many better pics of her should, she looks like she has the mumps there.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9WP1azXfKng/SFPlHdgSB0I/AAAAAAAAAM4/nTOEDgpiDCM/s1600-h/IslaFisher.jpg

That's better.

Posted by: Rubble44 at November 10, 2009 7:03 PM

Isla Fisher was awful in The Lookout, and she just gets increasingly annoying as time goes on. Meh. Amy Adams, though, is gold.

Posted by: Alli at November 10, 2009 7:17 PM

Posted by: Lainey

You do not want to pork him!

Posted by: Cindy at November 10, 2009 8:08 PM

My college roommate my senior year had a hot sister I tried and tried to get to go out with me, despite the fact she was also loud and abrasive. Found out later that she was a chubbo in high school (roomie said they called her "blimp") and despite her slimmed-down hotness was still carrying around the fat-girl attitude.

So since I have some actual experience in the role, can I kick Kutcher's ass out?

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy), at November 11, 2009 12:13 AM

That's a woman...wow.

Posted by: Top 10 Celebrity Pictures at December 4, 2009 4:12 PM





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