Isla Fisher To Headline Desperados

For audiences everywhere, Isla Fisher will be forever known for Wedding Crashers. Her high-profile headlining Confessions of a Shopaholic tanked but she still has a couple of more shots before Hollywood throws in the towel on her. That’s bullshit, yes. But that’s how things work.

THR reports on a spec script recently purchased by Universal with the intention of making it a vehicle for the actress. Desperados would have her (and her friends) racing to Mexico after discovering her boyfriend is in a coma. This predicament comes about right after she sent him an email with not-so-nice things to say about him.

Of course the pitch to the studio was “It’s like ‘The Hangover’ but with women!” I can already imagine one big complaint will be people thinking her character is a bitch for sending such an email and then trying to cover it up.

Like I said in the first paragraph, yes that’s bullshit. But audiences are weird (read: stupid). Hell, this is not unlike what happened in 2000s Road Trip but with guys (Remember? That was back when Tom Green was “cool!” A different time indeed, kids!) Nobody complained back then. But I can guarantee that’s how people will react to this. Yes, said people are fucking morons.