Six Underground: Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds to Star in Michael Bay Actioner

Deadpool 2 may still be on the collective minds of genre film fans, especially since it just shattered box office records for R-rated films and proved itself as a worthy sequel, at least in the eyes of the majority of moviegoers and our own review. However, its star, Ryan Reynolds, isn’t resting on his laurels, with plans to join yet another would-be action film franchise, this one called Six Underground, which will be directed by none other than the Transformers cinematic maestro, Michael Bay.

Ryan Reynolds is set to star in Six Underground, a project from Netflix and Skydance, described as “a high testosterone mission movie,” that will showcase a script by his Deadpool film franchise writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, reports Deadline. With Michael Bay onboard to direct, it’s created a collaboration that’s quite auspicious (financially, anyway); an idea that has compelled Skydance to put down an amount said to be about $150 million to producer the action film, for which it has clear franchise aspirations.

While no details have been revealed about the plot, things are moving very quickly for Six Underground, a collaboration with Netflix and Skydance that Bay only announced back in March. Indeed, with Reynolds now a lock, production has been fast-tracked, with plans to start rolling cameras as early as this summer, headed toward a 2019 release. The project will be spearheaded by Bay, who will also produce, joined in that capacity by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger.

For star Ryan Reynolds, who’s basking in the Deadpool 2 afterglow, this will be yet another post-comeback would-be franchise, with plans in motion to field projects such as Deadpool spinoff X-Force, a prospective sequel to 2017 The Hitman’s Bodyguard, the now-obligatory Deadpool 3 and the upcoming second attempt to adapt the board game, Clue. Plus, he’s voicing the titular Pokémon mascot in 2019-scheduled animated feature, Detective Pikachu, as well as a voice role in 2020-scheduled The Croods 2.

Director Michael Bay is also juggling another would-be film franchise in the sci-fi-thriller, Robopocalypse, for which he will work off a script by Drew Goddard. While he claims to be done occupying the director’s chair for the Transformers films (he always says that,) he will be serving as executive producer on the myriad movie sequels and spinoffs that Paramount and Hasbro Toys has planned for a time period that could very well reach the full extent of this current eon of life on Earth.

We will keep you updated on Six Underground as the news arrives!