When did Ryan Reynolds all of a sudden become a hotshot screenwriter?
Earlier in the year, it had been reported that Reynolds and wife Blake Lively took over Justin Baldoni’s edit of “It Ends With us,” despite Baldoni’s cut having scored higher with audiences. Controversy arose over Lively actually admitting that Reynolds wrote a few key scenes that ended up in the film. Sources say that came as news to Baldoni, who thought the scenes had been ad-libbed by Lively.
This might have also been a guild violation as Reynolds’ “work” on the film was potentially done during the WGA strikes. As a member of the guild, Reynolds would have been barred from contributing to the screenplay.
Regardless, we now have Reynolds telling Variety that he’s writing a new mystery project that would reunite him with his “Deadpool & Wolverine” cohorts, Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy. The project has nothing to do with the MCU, and seems to be an original story conceived from scratch by Reynolds.
“I’m spending the year writing,” Reynolds said. “I’m writing a movie for myself, Hugh [Jackman] and Shawn [Levy] to do that is not Marvel.”
Prior to their work on ‘Deadpool 3,’ Reynolds and Levy worked on films such as “The Adam Project” and “Free Guy.” Levy also previously worked with Jackman on “Real Steel” years ago.