A comfortable and charming cinematic couple will reunite in two forthcoming comedies, but which will come first? At the end of March, Monika Bartyzel passed on the news that Steve Martin and Diane Keaton would re-team for the first time in more than a decade for the family comedy One Big Happy. Martin and Keaton were attached to the pitch from Party of Five creators Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, which Paramount Pictures bought. Keyser and Lippman have other projects in various stages of development and no production timeline was mentioned.

Now, according to Variety, Paramount has bought another comedy pitch, this time from Steve Martin. Producer Robert Simonds presented Martin's idea for a comedy entitled From Zero to Sixty to all the major studios last week and Paramount was the "most aggresive in taking it off the table." Martin and Keaton would play a couple, but no other plot details emerged. Variety says production could start in the fall, but that's assuming a writer can be signed and the script completed very quickly. It may be that Paramount wants to fast track From Zero to Sixty because the script for One Big Happy will take a while to complete because of the writers' other projects.

Martin and Keaton starred together in Father of the Bride in 1991 and then followed that up with the sequel in 1995. Those films were very silly and forgettable, and I imagine these two new comedies will follow a similar path to box office success.

It has been over ten years since Diane Keaton and Steve Martin last starred in a film together -- Father of the Bride Part II. Now Variety reports that they're getting back into the family way for Paramount Pictures' comedy called One Big Happy. The pitch is the brainchild of Party of Five creators Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, and while they are being tight-lipped about the premise, Variety sources say that it's "a family comedy about a couple and a family reconnecting amid various obstacles."

The question is: can this possible live up to hopes? A handful of years ago, I might have said yes, but in the wave of crappy films from Diane Keaton, it's hard not to worry that this will just be another one. Then again, maybe this will mark a turning point for the actress. Perhaps she can reinvigorate her career with the help of a little white-haired Martin. She has to have it in there somewhere, buried deep below Mad Money, Because I Said So, and some of her other recent films... To be fair, Martin has had some questionable flicks in there as well, but since I really enjoyed both Novocaine and Shopgirl, he gets some slack.

Now if they can get Martin Short for an even bigger Father of the Bride reunion, I'll definitely check it out.