We can confirm that a remake of the hit 1974 United Artists action-comedy Thunderbolt & Lightfoot is in works at Amazon MGM Studios with Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Ryan Reynolds looking to star and produce under his Maximum Effort banner.
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Shane Reid is making his feature directorial debut. Reid was an editor on the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, 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’s Snowfall. In addition, they were part of the writing staff for the Frank Grillo MMA series The Kingdom.
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The 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.
Unadjusted 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.
Reynolds’ Maximum Effort has a first-look deal at Paramount that was re-upped in February 2024. He will play the bad guy and produce Netflix’s live-action take of children’s book Eloise, which his Maximum Effort is also producing.
Reynolds stars in Legendary and Warner Bros’ hybrid animated movie, Animal Friends, next summer in the role of Pony.