{"id":250818,"date":"2025-11-08T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250818\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:29:08","slug":"ryan-reynolds-eyes-redo-of-clint-eastwood-pic-thunderbolt-lightfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250818\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds Eyes Redo Of Clint Eastwood Pic ‘Thunderbolt & Lightfoot’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWe can confirm that a remake of the hit 1974 United Artists action-comedy\u00a0Thunderbolt & Lightfoot\u00a0is in works at Amazon MGM Studios with Deadpool & Wolverine\u2018s Ryan Reynolds<\/a> looking to star and produce under his Maximum Effort banner. <\/p>\n

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\n\tShane Reid is making his feature directorial debut. Reid was an editor on the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever<\/a>, Deadpool & Wolverine, which minted $636.7 million domestic and $1.33 billion at the global box office. Reynolds is working on the script with writers Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson. Mileti and Wilson penned the fourth season of FX anthology series Fargo and wrote and worked as consulting producers on the network\u2019s Snowfall. In addition, they were part of the writing staff for the Frank Grillo MMA series\u00a0The Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe original dark-comedy heist movie was written and directed by the late Michael Cimino in his feature helming debut. The pic follows a bank robber (Eastwood) and his irreverent sidekick (Bridges) who reassemble their old posse for a daring new heist.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnadjusted for inflation, the movie made $21.7M back in the day. Bridges notched a Supporting Actor Oscar nom for the movie produced by Robert Daley.<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds\u2019 Maximum Effort has a first-look deal at Paramount that was re-upped in February 2024<\/a>. He will play the bad guy<\/a> and produce Netflix\u2019s live-action take of children\u2019s book Eloise, which his Maximum Effort is also producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds stars in Legendary and Warner Bros\u2019 hybrid animated movie, Animal Friends, next summer in the role of Pony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We can confirm that a remake of the hit 1974 United Artists action-comedy\u00a0Thunderbolt & Lightfoot\u00a0is in works at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,16255,104549,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-thunderbolt-lightfoot","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}