They’ll be working with none other than Michael Bay of Transformers fame.
Skydance Media has announced that Ryan Reynolds, Bay and Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are working together on a Netflix movie.
Ryan Reynolds will star in “Six Underground,” Netflix’s upcoming action movie directed by @michaelbay and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the screenwriters behind Deadpool and Deadpool 2. pic.twitter.com/2vUloYTnAy
— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) May 22, 2018
Michael Bay is directing and producing the action movie, and it’s going to be called Six Underground. It is based on an original idea from Wernick and Reese, who are also going to exec produce the movie.
Skydance and Netflix previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series Grace and Frankie, and also on sci fi series Altered Carbon.
Sources say the plot revolves around six billionaires who fake their own deaths and form an elite team to take down bad guys.
The film is aiming to commence production this summer and to have a worldwide release in 2019 on Netflix.