Back in March, we learned that not only was Michael Bay looking to take over the job of directing Robopocalypse from Steven Spielberg, but that he was attached to a more mysterious action film called Six Underground. It appears any robo-reunion will have to wait, as Bay is moving forward with the new movie, and Ryan Reynolds will star.
Reynolds, riding high on the success of Deadpool 2, is involved partly because the script comes from his collaborators (co-conspirators?) on the Merc With A Mouth movies, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. And Netflix have splashed some hefty cash to make this one via Skydance Media, with Deadline reporting somewhere in the $150 million range, which would make it the company's most expensive movie yet. Our membership rates are going up again, we can just tell.
Not much is known about the plot other than it's a high testosterone mission movie, and you can get that Bay will want to inject more into it. He's looking to have the cameras rolling this summer for a 2019 release.
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