{"id":272908,"date":"2026-02-04T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:53:07","slug":"ryan-reynolds-and-kenneth-branagh-team-up-for-buddy-comedy-mayday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272908\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh Team Up for Buddy Comedy ‘Mayday’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRyan Reynolds<\/a> and Kenneth Branagh<\/a> are teaming up for Mayday, with Apple TV<\/a> releasing a first-look image from the new film during its press day in Santa Monica on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie<\/a>, which premieres Sept. 4 on the streamer, is described as a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head. When hot shot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy \u201cAssassin\u201d Kelly (Reynolds) is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he\u2019s toast \u2014 but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy\u2019s rescue, and a bond neither saw coming?<\/p>\n

\n\tMarcin Dorocinski, Maria Bakalova and David Morse round out the ensemble cast. An Apple original hailing from David Ellison\u2019s Skydance Media, Mayday is written, directed and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who most recently helmed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves). The project is part of Skydance\u2019s first-look deal with Apple, which previously resulted in the Chris Evans-Ana de Armas action-comedy\u00a0Ghosted, Mark Wahlberg feature\u00a0The Family Plan\u00a0and the genre-bender The Gorge, starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds, who also serves as an executive producer on the film, was last seen in 2024\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine; Branagh has lately been focused on directing\u2014 with Belfast, Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice as his most recent \u2014 but appeared on screen in those latter two films as well as in Oppenheimer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are teaming up for Mayday, with Apple TV releasing a first-look image from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8932,146,85,46,141604,2080],"class_list":{"0":"post-272908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kenneth-branagh","13":"tag-ryan-reynolds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272908","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=272908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}