Ryan Reynolds has a unique brand of comedy that fans love and mix that with Kenneth Branagh’s often dry sense of humor and you have a kind of perfect duo. Which is what the new film Mayday does. To celebrate the film’s release this week, we have an exclusive clip from the Apple TV movie!
Brought to us by the duo who brought us Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Mayday takes us into a genre-bending world. Written by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and directed by Daley, the film allows Branagh and Reynolds to live out their best lives as a buddy-cop duo and that’s going to make for a great time at the (home) cinema.
Mayday is described as follows: “Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh team up in Mayday, a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head. When hot shot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy ‘Assassin’ Kelly (Reynolds) is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he’s toast – but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy’s rescue, and a bond neither saw coming?”
The clip shows Troy and Nikolai as they’re trying to find a safe place to hide. In order to do so, they go to Anna’s (Maria Bakalova) home, Nikolai’s daughter. The scene is a look at how quickly Nikolai can think on his toes, easily finding a way out for all three of them when they are being hunted down. Using a match to light a gas fire is pretty iconic. Will they escape? What happens next? We’ll just have to wait and see when Mayday comes up later this week on Apple TV.
You can see the full clip here:
Mayday is available on September 4.
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