6 UNDERGROUND: Bay’s Skydance/Netflix Actioner Adds Two More For Late August Start
César Award winning actress Mélanie Laurent (Beginners, Inglorious Bastards) and Payman Maadi (The Night Of, A Separation, 13 Hours) are the latest additions to the ensemble cast of the upcoming action film, 6 Underground. The film hails from Netflix and Skydance Media with prolific Transformers franchise helmer Michael Bay in his first pairing with starring actor and Deadpool franchise star Ryan Reynolds.
Plot details are continually kept under wraps for 6 Underground which is otherwise based on an original idea from Deadpool 1 and 2 scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who are writing and executive producing. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger will produce 6 Underground along with Bay and Ian Bryce.
Rounding out the cast to date are Corey Hawkins (BlacKkKlansman, 24: Legacy (TV), Straight Outta Compton), Adria Arjona (Triple Frontier, True Detective (TV), Pacific Rim Uprising), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Murder On The Orient Express, The Magnificent Seven), Ben Hardy (X-Men: Apocalypse, upcoming Bohemian Rhapsody) Lior Raz (Fauda, Operation Finale), and Dave Franco (6 Balloons, Neighbors, Now You See Me).
Production is expected to start in late August for a 2019 release. The film marks a first for Skydance and Netflix in producibg an event-level feature film for the streaming giant following their work on the critically acclaimed and Emmy Nominated series “Grace and Frankie” and the Emmy Nominated action sci-fi noir series, Altered Carbon, which has just been renewed for a second season.
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