“Mayday” is lastly right here.
On the Apple TV Press Day, the corporate unveiled the primary look picture for the upcoming Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh-led movie. It additionally revealed the worldwide premiere date for the brand new film – Friday, September 4, 2006. (There was no point out of a theatrical element.)
Apple is describing “Mayday” as “a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head.”
The official synopsis reads: “When sizzling shot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy ‘Murderer’ Kelly (Reynolds) is shipped on a top-secret mission into Russian territory on the peak of the Chilly Conflict, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy traces. Found by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American tradition, Troy thinks he’s toast – however may an unlikely alliance between the 2 result in Troy’s rescue, and a bond neither noticed coming?”
The ensemble solid additionally contains Marcin Dorocinski, Maria Bakalova and David Morse.
Most excitingly is the truth that the film, from Apple Authentic Movie and Skydance Media, was written, produced and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the filmmakers behind latest favorites “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves” and “Sport Evening.”
David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger produce for Skydance, alongside Most Effort’s Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau. Reynolds and George Dewey, via Most Effort, together with John G. Scotti, function government producers.
Different Apple Authentic movies coming in 2026 embody “Matchbox,” primarily based on the toyline and starring John Cena and Jessica Biel; pickleball comedy “The Dink,” with Jake Johnson, Ben Stiller, Mary Steenburgen; Jonah Hill’s “Final result,” starring Keanu Reeves, Hill and Cameron Diaz; and “Approach of the Warrior Child,” starring Chris Pratt and directed by McG.
