Michael Bay & Ryan Reynolds Are Teaming Up For Netflix’s Priciest Movie Ever

If you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t noticed, Netflix have been making bold plays into the world of original feature films over the past few years. Basically everyone agrees that it hasn’t been as successful as its forays into TV production, but they’re dumping a lot of cash into making sure a slew of feature films hit the streaming service instead of the silver screen.

Their latest gambit is also their most expensive one – they’ll be producing and co-financing Michael Bay‘s new movie with Ryan Reynolds. Those two names should convince you of two things specifically: it’ll be expensive as all hell, and it will undoubtedly feature a lot of oversaturated explosions.

Netflix beat out Paramount Pictures for the deal after they committed to Bay’s desired budget of $125 million for the movie, which is named Six Underground. That makes it Netflix’s most expensive production to date, beating out the Martin Scorsese flick The Irishman at a paltry $106 million.

There’s absolutely no plot details circulating at the moment, but the spec script was written by Deadpool 2 scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese so that should probably clue you in as to the kind of film we’re talking about here. Jokes and lots of violence, basically. Michael Bay can definitely do funny when push comes to shove: despite the fact he’s spent the last decade churning out Transformers movies, his bodybuilding crime caper Pain & Gain was massively underrated as a satire. Let’s see more of that Bay.

The film – whatever it ends it up being about – is set to start production soon, with a very general target release date of 2019 on Netflix.

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