Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy’s Action Movie to Debut on Netflix

By Brent Lang, Variety
Published July 23, 2020, 3:48 p.m. ET

Netflix is getting in the Ryan Reynolds business again.

After teaming with the A-lister on the hit 6 Underground, the streaming service is buying an untitled action-adventure film that is set to star Reynolds and be directed by Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy, Variety has learned. Netflix bought the rights from Skydance Media, which backed 6 Underground, as well as the streamer’s recent smash The Old Guard. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Reynolds and Levy previously teamed on the upcoming sci-fi action-comedy Free Guy. Both men will also produce the film. Jonathan Tropper (This is Where I Leave You) is currently writing the latest draft of the film. The plot of the film is being kept under Kremlin-level secrecy. Tropper’s rewrite is based on scripts by TS Nowlin and Mark Levin & Jennifer Flackett.

David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger are producing the film for Skydance.

Skydance’s upcoming films include Top Gun: Maverick, Snake Eyes and The Tomorrow War, all with Paramount Pictures.

Reynolds’ upcoming films include The Croods 2, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, and Red Notice, an action-comedy that is set to star Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot. Netflix swept in and bought the rights for Red Notice from Universal in 2019.