By Back in early 2023 came the news that Ryan Reynolds had set up the feature comedy “Boy Band” which will see him re-team with filmmaker Shawn Levy yet again.
The comedy was said to be about former boy band members reuniting as middle-aged men. Reynolds was attached to star, produce and co-write with Jesse Andrews. The project was also being eyed as a potential Levy directing vehicle and the hope was to shoot early 2024.
That didn’t happen. Speaking with THR this week, he confirms Hugh Jackman is in talks to join the project which is still very much moving forward.
That said, it’s still some way off and he gives us an update on where it stands right now:
“I’m on a second draft. The first draft was incredible and written by one of my favorite writers, Jesse Andrews. Now I’m on my lonesome.
There are no dates or anything just yet. I’m not filming anything for at least a year. This feels like it needs to have an extremely modest budget, and one that wouldn’t be all about going to pay above-the-line actors.
Shawn, Hugh and I are open to creative ways to make this movie at an absolute bargain. A lot of members of boy bands – and there are a lot of them – had managers who left them high and dry.
They experienced levels of fame that would be very difficult for anyone to navigate, let alone an adolescent, when you are farming out your self-worth to an audience of screaming people.
It creates a kind of arrested cultural development. They’re forever associated with that period of time in their lives. This would be about people in their 40s and 50s trying to get their lives back.
I think there is something beautiful about that. The north star for me as a producer is joy. I feel like cynicism is a contracting industry, and doesn’t have a great shelf life.”
Reynolds would produce the film through his Maximum Effort label, as would Levy through his 21 Laps label.
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