Life (2017)

DoubleD

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What’s next for Ryan Reynolds after the record-setting Deadpool opening? Reynolds is in talks to star with Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation‘s Rebecca Ferguson in Life, a Skydance Productions film that Daniel Espinosa will direct from a script by Reynolds’ Deadpool scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. Espinosa and Reynolds teamed previously on Safe House.

Espinosa signed on last November, and talks with Reynolds were going on before the film surpassed the wildest dreams of anyone by grossing $150 million domestic and $282 million global in its opening five-day weekend. Skydance’s David Ellison and Dana Goldberg are producing with Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn. Paramount’s expected to be the distributor. It’s a big-scale film focusing on a Mars mission that finds intelligent alien life.

While the talk now is whether this is an anomaly for Reynolds, I’d posit that many expected him to become a big star off of playing the smart-aleck fratboy character in 2002’s Van Wilder. Reynolds had some tough breaks along the way — most notably the failure of the Green Lantern and R.I.P.D., both of which put him in leading man jail. He was good in those films, though, and electric in Buried — I attended the midnight premiere in Toronto where the crowd tore the roof off the theater. But ultimately, who wants to see a movie where a guy is buried in a coffin, on a cell phone, for the entire movie? Whatever he brought to the films The Proposal and Safe House was marginalized and the credit given to Sandra Bullock and Denzel Washington for those hits. And whatever franchise potential might have come from Blade: Trinity was undone from exceptionally foul language which I think doomed the movie.

Reynolds has been in ridiculously good shape for every movie he makes, and he’s likable and eagerly promotes his films. Like Robert Downey Jr., he just needed a big hit that is singularly his, and now he has it.

Reynolds is repped by WME and attorney David Weber; Ferguson, who’s currently starring in The Girl On The Train, is repped by ICM Partners and Tavistock Wood.

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Dodd

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I'v been watching Ryan Reynolds' life for a while now

Any word on what genera this film will be?

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This is going 2017's really good, non franchise sci-fi blockbuster hit with an A list cast and stunning visual effects that get's a handful of oscar nominations. When it kills at the box office many articles will be written showing how this proof that A-listers aren't dead in this age of sequels and reboots. And than 2 weeks later when another A-list actor has their oscar bait film fail every box office report that weekend will say this is proof that only sequels and reboots sell at the box office. People will love this movie, calling it one of the best sci-fi films and among it's many things they love about it will be that's it's scientifically accurate. Than the annoying internet backlash will happen. The movie will be nitpicked for any scientific inaccuracy's in it. And than the cycle will start again in 2018.