‘Deadpool 3’s Shawn Levy Boards Ryan Reynolds Heist Comedy As Director & Producer At Netflix
deadline.comOne day after Deadline revealed that Netflix beat out seven other bidders for an untitled international heist comedy package built around Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy has boarded as director and joined the roster of producers headed by Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon, Reynolds through his Maximum Effort banner, and Dana Fox, the Lost City scribe who will write the script.
Levy is currently directing Reynolds in Deadpool 3, which Kinberg is producing. Levy and Reynolds also teamed on The Adam Project, which is the third most viewed Netflix film in the streamer of that history.
Levy just directed all the episodes and was EP through his 21 Laps on the Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See, which just received a Golden Globe nomination.
Molly Milstein and Margy Love will be exec producers. Kira Goldberg and Ori Marmur are overseeing at Netflix. The pitch is untitled, but it’s set up as an ensemble in the spirit of an Oceans Eleven.
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