Ryan Reynolds is working on a boy band movie, and his “Deadpool & Wolverine ”costar Hugh Jackman may join him

Deadpool & Wolverine costars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman may have found their next project together.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds revealed that he's working on Boy Band, which revolves around aging pop stars. "I really want to make Boy Band, and I’m still trying to figure out the smartest way to put that together," he told the outlet.

A representative for Jackman confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the Logan actor is discussing joining the project with Reynolds.THR reports that in addition to writing and starring in the film, Reynolds will produce with Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy at Paramount.

Reps for Reynolds, Levy, and Paramount did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.

Reynolds told THR that he hopes the project can be assembled with "an extremely modest budget" that isn't dominated by actors' massive payrolls. "Shawn, Hugh and I are open to creative ways to make this movie at an absolute bargain," he said.

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The Red Notice actor explained why he's fascinated by the idea of pop stars past their prime. "A lot of members of boy bands — and there are a lot of them — had managers who left them high and dry," Reynolds said. "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."

Reynolds sees immense potential in framing Boy Band as a redemption story. "This would be about people in their 40s and 50s trying to get their lives back," he said. "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 also clarified that he's writing a second draft of the screenplay based on an "incredible" first draft from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl scribe Jesse Andrews.

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The Deadpool star previously teased a reunion with Jackman in an interview with Entertainment Weekly this summer. "We have one we're looking to do soon," Reynolds said. "I would say that [ours] is like any relationship that is successful and works: It's that two parties are rooting for each other. I'm always rooting for Hugh to score and win. I also know the infinite nuance of his heart and his mind and who he is. I can say firsthand that he's a person who's not just worth rooting for, he's somebody who's impossible to not root for."

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Reynolds and Jackman first starred together in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and embarked on their first full-blown team-up with Deadpool and Wolverine, which quickly became the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. Jackman also appeared via archival footage in Deadpool 2, provided a voice cameo in Free Guy, and popped up in an episode of Welcome to Wrexham, all starring Reynolds.

Reynolds previously worked with Levy on Free Guy and The Adam Project, while Jackman collaborated with the director on Real Steel and in a brief cameo in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.

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Jackman seems like a natural fit for a movie about pop music, as he has as much experience as a song-and-dance man as he does playing a superhero. The Prestige star began his career on the Australian stage, eventually breaking out in a West End revival of Oklahoma and later starring in musical movies like Les Miserables, The Greatest Showman, and Happy Feet. He recently headlined a buzzy Broadway revival of The Music Man, earning a Tony nomination for his performance as Harold Hill.

Reynolds has a less experience in the musical genre than Jackman, but he did sing in the 2022 Christmas comedy Spirited alongside Will Ferrell, and also turned in an impressive performance of "Tomorrow" from Annie on South Korea's King of Masked Singer in 2018.

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