Ryan Reynolds Killer Comedy Mayday pairs him with Kenneth Branagh in a Cold War action comedy from the Game Night directors.
Ryan Reynolds Killer Comedy Mayday just dropped a trailer that makes the Cold War look like a buddy vacation gone very wrong. If you have ever wanted to watch Deadpool crash a fighter jet into Soviet Russia and then trade banter with a former KGB agent played by Kenneth Branagh, your extremely specific wish has finally been granted.
Mayday is an Apple TV+ action comedy directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the team behind Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The film stars Reynolds as Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a U.S. Navy pilot on a top-secret mission during the Cold War who is forced to crash-land in the Russian wilderness. There he encounters Nikolai Ustinov, played by Branagh, an ex-KGB agent who becomes his reluctant ally. The cast also includes Maria Bakalova, Marcin Dorociński, and David Morse.
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Here is the genuinely surprising part: the entire film shot in Montreal under the working title Blackbird, with principal photography beginning in March 2024 and wrapping in just two months. Goldstein and Daley wrote the script and directed, continuing their streak of making mid-budget action comedies that actually remember to be funny. The project was first announced in June 2023, which means they moved from greenlight to finished film with the kind of efficiency that makes most Hollywood productions look like they are moving through molasses. For context, some Marvel movies spend longer in pre-visualization than this entire production took from camera roll to final cut.
The directors know how to craft a killer setpiece without losing the comedy, and their signature style fits Reynolds like a glove. Who else could make a forced landing in enemy territory feel like a vacation gone hilariously wrong? You can already picture the scene where Branagh tries to explain Russian philosophy while Reynolds is just trying not to freeze to death. It is giving Midnight Run meets The Hunt for Red October, if Sean Connery had an Oscar and Robert De Niro had better hair.
Ryan Reynolds Killer Comedy Mayday lands on Apple TV+ September 4, 2026. Mark your calendar, stock your popcorn, and prepare for the only Cold War movie where the nuclear threat is secondary to the banter.
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