Last month it was announced that Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are going to reunite with director Shawn Levy for a new movie
Reynolds previously revealed: “I’m spending the year writing. I’m writing a movie for myself, Hugh [Jackman] and Shawn [Levy] to do that is not Marvel.”
We now have details to share on what that film will be as Reynolds and Jackman are going to play aging Boy Band members who reunite post-fame as middle-aged men.
Reynolds told The Hollywood Reporter: “A lot of members of boy bands – and there are a lot of them – had managers who left them high and dry.
“They experienced levels of fame that would be very difficult for anyone to navigate, let alone an adolescent, when you are farming out your self-worth to an audience of screaming people.
“It creates a kind of arrested cultural development. They’re forever associated with that period of time in their lives. This would be about people in their 40s and 50s trying to get their lives back. I think there is something beautiful about that.”
Jesse Andrews wrote the first draft of the script, with Reynolds working on a second draft. The actor also said that the film would have a “modest budget” this time around, and that he and Levy are open to “creative ways” to make the movie “at an absolute bargain.”
