{"id":115367,"date":"2025-11-04T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115367\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:51:16","slug":"ryan-reynolds-lands-rare-villain-role-in-gilmore-girls-creators-bold-new-netflix-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/115367\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds lands rare villain role in Gilmore Girls creator’s “bold” new Netflix movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Reynolds has landed a rare villain role in Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “bold” new Netflix movie, which serves as a live-action adaptation of a beloved children’s book. Based on Kay Thompson’s 1955 book Eloise, the new film will follow a young girl who lives in the “room on the tippy-top floor” of New York City’s Plaza Hotel. <\/p>\n

Newcomer Mae Schenk will play the titular character, while Reynolds is reportedly on board to play an “original villainous character” (via Variety<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Sherman-Palladino is on board to direct and write the adaptation, while Hannah Marks and Linda Woolverton are co-writing the screenplay.<\/p>\n

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Described as a “wholly original adventure”, Netflix recently landed rights to the film, which has been in development since 2020. <\/p>\n

Speaking about the live-action adaptation, Hannah Minghella, Head of Feature Animation and Family Film at Netflix, said in a statement: “Eloise has been beloved for generations, from when she was first published in the 1950s through to today, when no family trip to New York City is complete without a stop at The Plaza.”<\/p>\n

She continued: “It\u2019s an honour to reintroduce this cherished character to the world with two people who share her signature mischief and charm – Amy Sherman-Palladino and Ryan Reynolds – in this bold, hilarious, and heartfelt new family film.”<\/p>\n

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Reynolds, who isn’t best known for playing villains, has played the bad guy just a handful of times in the past few decades, so the new role will mark a departure from his usual style. <\/p>\n

The actor played a serial killer in the 2014 film The Voices. He also technically played a villain in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine when Wade Wilson was turned into Weapon XI. <\/p>\n

In 2005’s The Amityville Horror, he played the antagonist George Lutz, though his character was possessed by an evil spirit, so technically he wasn’t actually a villain. <\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, Sherman-Palladino and husband Daniel released a new comedy-drama<\/a> titled \u00c9toile. <\/p>\n

The Prime Video series about two ballet companies in New York and Paris was a hit among viewers and critics alike, and it currently has a rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 51 reviews. <\/p>\n

“\u00c9toile has all the elements of a classic Sherman-Palladino joint, which is to say that it\u2019s a pleasure to watch… It also stands as a delightful, if occasionally chaotic, case in point,” penned Time Magazine<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The new edition of Living Legends is here! Buy Ariana & Witches in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n

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Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds has landed a rare villain role in Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “bold” new Netflix movie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,635,74413,637,146,85,46,636,74412],"class_list":["post-115367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f8a018cc-7891-4558-8da6-b21fdb01e562","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-ryan-reynolds-lands-villain-role-in-netflix-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}