TORONTO — Keanu Reeves is set to return to Canada — the country where he grew up — to make a movie with Reese Witherspoon.
The two stars will make the sci-fi love story Passengers in Montreal later this year, according to a source familiar with the project.
Reeves and Witherspoon will play passengers aboard a space ship transporting thousands of people to a distant planet. When something malfunctions in a sleep chamber, Reeves’s character wakes up 90 years before any of the others passengers and, realizing he will be all alone for the rest of his life, he wakes up Witherspoon’s character.
The film, which marks the feature debut of director Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, Rogue), will be shot primarily on the soundstages of La Cite du Cinema.
Reeves, 48, was born in Lebanon but spent most of his early life in Toronto, where he attended Etobicoke School of the Arts and played hockey.
The actor has come back to Canada for work several times over the years, including 2008’s B.C.-shot The Day the Earth Stood Still and 1995’s made-in-Toronto Johnny Mnemonic.
Witherspoon, 37, has previously worked in Canada on films like the 1996 B.C.-filmed Fear and 2000’s Toronto-shot American Psycho.
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