Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman to Star in Shawn Levy's ‘Boy Band'

It was only a matter of time before ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ BFFs, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, would star in another film together. I just can’t wait for the random series of movies we are going to be getting from these two in the next few years.

Reynolds is telling THR that “Boy Band,” which he is producing with Shawn Levy, and already has a home at Paramount, will tell the story of former boy band members reuniting as middle-aged men. Shawn Levy is set to direct.

Reynolds mentions how every studio in town reached out in early November about the project, not realizing it had long been set up at Paramount, where Maximum Effort has a first-look deal. The first draft of the script, which Reynolds describes as “incredible,” was written by Jesse Andrews (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”). Reynolds is now working on the second draft.

When did Ryan Reynolds all of a sudden become a hotshot screenwriter?

Earlier in the year, it was 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.

Prior to their work on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ Reynolds and Levy worked on such films as “The Adam Project” and “Free Guy.” Levy previously worked with Jackman on 2011’s “Real Steel.”