MOVIE NEWS – Ryan Reynolds, who has already been part of several huge franchises, wants to start another one with a Disney Park-based Society of Explorers and Adventurers movie.

Ryan Reynolds may have been on a hiatus lately, but with his roles in the recently announced Deadpool 3, the upcoming Netflix sequel Red Notice, and now he’s teamed up with Strange World co-director Qui Nguyen to make The Society of Adventurers and Explorers develop film. SEA is a group of fictional characters that have been featured at Disney theme parks for decades, and according to The Hollywood Reporter , this could be another huge franchise to come from a Disney park attraction.

Society of Explorers and Adventurers is already in the works as a Disney+ series, but this new project will be separate from that, although both will focus on the group, who are said to have been founded in Porto Paradiso, Italy in 1538, and are made up of artists, scientists and explorers who travel the world they make discoveries and have adventures. Many of these people have been featured in various Disney park rides, such as Harrison Hightower III in Tower of Terror, Barnabas T. Bullion in Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and Dr. Albert Falls in Jungle Cruise has its own movie franchise. also kicked off starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

Reynolds and Nguyen’s new film, which will be produced under Reynolds’ Maximum Effort banner, could potentially join the Ron Moore-developed TV series as part of a shared universe. With movies based on the rides Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Tower of Terror , and last year’s Jungle Cruise , it looks like Reynolds may be headed to another big Disney franchise. If there’s anyone who’s likely to be able to bring an audience to a franchise like this, Ryan Reynolds is certainly one of the best people for the job.

When it comes to the world’s biggest film franchises, the Walt Disney Company boasts two of the most successful franchises in the world: Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avatar and more. However, while Disney has had phenomenal success with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and the 2021 Jungle Cruise has been a reasonable success considering the Covid pandemic, not every movie based on one of the popular theme park attractions in the House of Mouse has enjoyed the same kind of response. .

Among the films that went into the trash are Country Bears, Mission to Mars, Tomorrowland and The Haunted Mansion, although the latter will soon have another chance at glory. Whether the potential world-traveling adventure of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers would be enough to launch a new franchise as successful as Pirates remains to be seen, but there is just as much chance that it will be another expensive Disney bombshell from it.

Source: MovieWeb