New 85% Action Movie Breaks A Ryan Reynolds Streak 6 Years After $785 Million Hit
Summary
- Breaking a six-year streak, Ryan Reynolds does not make a cameo in the 2024 action film The Fall Guy, surprising fans and critics alike.
- Despite the perfect opportunity for a cameo, Reynolds is replaced by Jason Momoa in the movie’s meta cameo, ending a streak of appearing in Leitch’s films.
- Reynolds’ collaborations with director David Leitch began with Deadpool 2 and continued with other action films, making his absence in The Fall Guy unexpected.
Ryan Reynolds has become one of Hollywood’s biggest action movie stars, but a new 2024 film breaks the actor’s six-year streak. Reynolds has been a regular action movie star for nearly two decades, mixing in original ideas and franchise plays during this time. He’s leaned further into action-comedies ever since Deadpool became a massive success in 2016, allowing him to launch The Hitman’s Bodyguard‘s franchise and have other potential franchise starters with Red Notice, 6 Underground, Free Guy, and The Adam Project. He even voiced Pikachu in Pokémon Detective Pikachu to further his franchise possibilities.
In addition to headlining franchise sequels and possible new ones, Ryan Reynolds also has a habit of appearing in cameos in other action movies. They can either be simple jokes or appearances meant to set him up for a return in potential sequels. This is why he’s made a cameo in movies like Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Bullet Train, and Ghosted. This has made the chances of Ryan Reynolds showing up in various action movies a bit more expected, especially when frequent collaborators and friends are involved. But a new movie snaps one of his streaks.
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The Fall Guy Is David Leitch’s First Movie Since Deadpool 2 Without Ryan Reynolds
Reynolds Had Cameos In Leitch’s Two Previous Movies
David Leitch and Ryan Reynolds started working together in 2018 with Deadpool 2, as the John Wick producer was tapped to direct. The Deadpool sequel became a massive success, earning strong reviews and over $785 million at the worldwide box office. This marked the beginning of a collaboration that would continue even though Leitch did not return to direct Deadpool & Wolverine. Reynolds still managed to make cameos in Hobbs & Shaw and Bullet Train after working with the director on Deadpool 2. This made it seem likely that Reynolds would appear before The Fall Guy‘s ending in some capacity.
The Fall Guy‘s cast is headlined by Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, but it also includes appearances from Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, and more. Based on the trend of Ryan Reynolds appearing in David Leitch’s movies, the odds of another cameo happening were thought to be high. The film’s official release means it is finally confirmed that Ryan Reynolds does not have a role in The Fall Guy. As a result, the six-year trend of Reynolds appearing in Leitch’s movies is broken with the critically acclaimed 2024 action film.
The Fall Guy has an 85% Critics Score on Rotten Tomatoes
The Fall Guy Had The Perfect Opportunity For A Ryan Reynolds Cameo
The Fall Guy Had A Different Surprise Actor Cameo
SPOILERS for The Fall Guy are below!
What makes The Fall Guy breaking Ryan Reynolds’ cameo streak all the more surprising is that the movie had the perfect opportunity to pull it off again. In the final moments of the film, the trailer for the fictional movie Metalstorm is shown and reveals the actor who replaced Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Tom Ryder. This is where Jason Momoa cameos in The Fall Guy as a version of himself who is the new lead actor in the romantic sci-fi/action film. It would have been easy for Ryan Reynolds to be the meta cameo in The Fall Guy to continue his and Leitch’s collaboration streak.
The Fall Guy
- Director
- David Leitch
- Release Date
- May 3, 2024
- Writers
- Drew Pearce
