Coming out of Friends, Matthew Perry had the best chance at success on the big screen. His film “The Whole Nine Yards” was the ONLY decent Friends cast movie ever made (at the time), and his humor and style just seemed more suited to the movies. Yeah… didn’t quite work out that way.
After the whole nine yards, all of Perry’s films have been disasters. However, as our good friends over at Cinema Blend are reporting… it looks like Perry may have just found the right role for himself in “Numb” to get his career going again:
The former Bing will play an unstable screenwriter with a “depersonalization disorder”. Don’t know what that is? The official press release describes it as an alienating condition akin to an extreme depression. It’s so bad, by comparison it makes depressed people look quirky. The super-depressed writer falls for a girl, but since he’s such a downer he can’t get her. To win her heart, he puts himself through every kind of therapy available to fix his downer problem and earn her love.
This does sound good to me… however I also see 2 potential problems with it:
1) It sounds a little too much like As Good As It Gets for me
2) The people writing it. “Harris Goldberg, who had a hand in writing and producing Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and the truly horrible, career ending Dana Carvey vehicle Master of Disguise. In the hands of a many like that, there may be another failure in store for the sadly underrated Matthew Perry. ”
Ouch… that’s NOT good news. Those are two of the worst films of all time. Man, I sure would like to see Perry land on his feet again.
