Keanu Reeves Is a Budget Guardian Angel in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune

Keanu Reeves, celestial screw-up? Believe it. In the upcoming comedy, Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut, the most beloved man on the internet, Reeves, plays Gabriel, a well-intentioned but wildly ineffective guardian angel with more heart than heavenly skill.

The setup is deliciously absurd: Gabriel, whose miracles include stopping people from texting while driving, wants a bigger impact. According the trailer of the film that recently dropped, the story revolves around Arj (Ansari), a broke gig worker with dreams just out of reach and a boss—Jeff (played by Seth Rogen)—so rich and arrogant he makes tech bros look humble.

Gabriel’s divine solution? A Freaky Friday-style body swap to prove that money doesn’t buy happiness.

Naturally, it backfires spectacularly.

Arj thrives in his boss’s body. Gabriel loses his wings. Jeff is stuck navigating the underpaid hellscape of Arj’s life. And now, the angel has to live among the mortals he’s been half-heartedly protecting—all while sorting out a mess he created with the spiritual precision of a drunk Cupid.

Shot with equal parts heart and hilarious chaos, Good Fortune is the kind of socially-aware comedy that's R-rated comedy Hollywood doesn’t make enough of anymore. Ansari, returning to the screen with a vengeance, blends sharp class commentary with old-school body-swap hijinks. And Keanu? He’s a revelation—equal parts deadpan, dazed, and devastatingly funny.

Interestingly, before casting the John Wick actor whom Ansari had never meet before and was nervously excited to work with. So, to feel more comfortable around his costar, Ansari says, “I was like, ‘Hey man, we got to hang out a few times, so I'm not freaked out being around you.

"You know what I mean?’ So he was like, ‘I get what you mean.’ So, we hung out, and he came over to my house. I made him Indian food, and we hung out for a while, and he told me all these stories. And then we went to dinner a couple of times, and I tried to really spend time with him to get to know him a little bit so I could become comfortable around him.”

Moreover, Sandra Oh, known for her roles in Grey's Anatomy and Killing Eve, plays the no-nonsense angel Martha (the one who demotes Gabriel), and Keke Palmer pops in for an as-yet-undisclosed role.

Expect heavenly bureaucracy, existential crises, and one salsa dance scene (delayed after Reeves fractured his kneecap during filming—because even angels trip on rugs).

Expected to hit the theatres on October 17, Good Fortune is refreshingly human, weird, and little profound. Reeves might not be the angel we deserve—but he’s the one we want awkwardly hovering over us in a vintage trench coat.