Aside from producing the documentary John Candy: I Like Me, Ryan Reynolds sat out contributing to the 2025 movies schedule. However, he’ll be back onscreen next year for the live action animated road trip comedy Animal Friends, and it’s rumored he’ll also reprise Wade Wilson, a.k.a. Deadpool, in the upcoming Marvel movie Avengers: Doomsday. Looking further into the future, word’s come in that Reynolds is teaming with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and now I have to wonder if his character will deliver the actor’s trademark snarky-fast dialogue.
He and Sherman-Palladino are developing a new Eloise live-action movie for Netflix, based off the same-named book series from the 1950s authored by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. According to THR, Reynolds will both produce Eloise through his Maximum Effort production company alongside MRC, as well as play an “original villainous character” opposite Mae Schenk as the title protagonist. This Eloise movie will be an original story rather than directly adapt one of the books, with Sherman-Palladino writing the script with Hannah Marks and Linda Woolverton. Filming will begin later this month.
