Ryan Reynolds To Star In Time Travel Film From ‘Free Guy’ Director Shawn Levy
Looks likeRyan ReynoldsandShawn Levyenjoyed makingFree Guytogether, because the actor and director are reuniting to make a time travel adventure movie for Skydance. Get the details below.
According toHeat Vision, Reynolds will star in a movie which was once calledOur Name is Adambut is now untitled. The reworked project now follows a man who has to travel back in time to get help from his 13-year old self. Together, they run into their late father, who is now the same age as Reynolds.
That description reminds me a little of the most powerful moment in Richard Curtis’s unconventional romanceAbout Time, which I won’t openly spoil here. But suffice it to say that I believe Levy, whose directorial efforts are admittedly all over the place, has what it takes to make this an emotional, effective film that scratches the same itch. As for whether or not Reynolds, a guy best known for his wisecracking on-screen personas, can handle that level of emotional heft, seek out movies likeDefinitely, MaybeorThe Ninesfor proof that he can do more than be a non-stop joke machine.
Levy is one of the producer/directors ofStranger Thingsand the filmmaker behindReal Steel,Date Night, and theNight at the Museumfranchise, and this will be his next directorial effort. The original spec script was written by T.S. Nowlin and made the2012 Black List(the annual list of Hollywood’s favorite unproduced screenplays). Tom Cruise wasonce attached to star, but he instead went on to make two different sci-fi movies withOblivionandEdge of Tomorrow. He was reportedly going to play an astronaut, but it’s unclear if the lead character’s profession changed during the rewrite byJonathan Topper, who created the TV showsBansheeandWarriorand wrote Levy’s 2014 movieThis is Where I Leave You.
Levy and Reynolds are set to produce the movie alongside Skydance’sDavid Ellison,Dana Goldberg, andDon Granger, and filming is set to get underway sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, assuming that can be done safely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Skydance currently hasTop Gun: Maverick, two moreMission: Impossiblemovies, and the Michael B. Jordan spy thrillerWithout Remorselined up in their deal with Paramount, and this time travel adventure will presumably be distributed by Paramount also.
