Shawn Levy is reuniting with his long-time collaborator Ryan Reynolds in the high-profile, untitled global heist project that landed at Netflix on Wednesday.
The giant streamer won the feature package in what was described as an eight-company bidding war. Dana Fox will write the script.
Levy will direct the pic as well as produce via his 21 Laps production banner. He joins a producing ensemble that includes Reynolds, via his Maximum Effort, and Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon through their banner, Genre Films. Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau of Maximum Effort are also producing.
Details are being kept locked in a vault but the project is being touted as a high-concept globally set caper flick a la Ocean’s Eleven.
Fox came up with the initial concept, with her and Kinberg further developing it before bringing it to Reynolds.
The project hit the town last week and quickly escalated into a competitive situation, not a surprise given the names involved, with Netflix emerging as the victor in a high-priced battle.
The project isn’t happening anytime soon as it is still in early development. Reynolds also has a busy dance card and is even attached to another hot package, Calamity Hustle, which is making the rounds.
Molly Milstein and Margy Love will executive produce.
Levy and Reynolds have become one of Hollywood’s latest creative combos, each playing to the other’s strengths of fleet-footed lightness and comedic touch.
The pair first worked together on "Free Guy", the action-adventure movie set within a video game that proved to be a surprise hit in 2021. They followed with the more touching action-adventure movie "The Adam Project" in 2022, which debuted on Netflix and is the third most-viewed movie of all time on the platform in terms of the streamer’s original releases in the first 28 days.
The duo is now shooting their third movie together, Marvel Studios’ "Deadpool 3".
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