Director Shawn Levy is looking to follow up the success of Marvel Studios’ smash hit superhero blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine by reuniting with its two stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman for a new project.
The news was revealed by Ryan Reynolds during Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast (via Dark Horizons), with Reynolds stating that he plans on “spending the year writing… I’m writing a movie for myself, Hugh [Jackman] and Shawn [Levy] to do that is not Marvel.”
Reynolds is beginning to form a regular partnership with filmmaker Levy, the pair having collaborated on Free Guy, The Adam Project and Deadpool & Wolverine in recent years. Should the project come to fruition, it would also mark Jackman’s third pairing with the director after the Marvel blockbuster and 2011’s Real Steal.
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Levy is yet to lock in his next feature directorial project after Deadpool & Wolverine, although he has helmed an episode of next year’s final season of Stranger Things, which he also executive produces. The filmmaker is also attached to helm a Star Wars project for Disney and Lucasfilm, which picked up a writer back in July, and it was announced last year that he would be teaming with Reynolds to produce a comedy entitled Boy Band.
