Everything Ryan Reynolds His touch these days seems to be turning to gold, figuratively speaking. His current golden touch has transcended his acting career, as evidenced by his ever-expanding business empire, which includes his ownership of Welsh football club Wrexham, as documented in the TV series Welcome to WrexhamWith the exception of pop star Taylor Swift, Reynolds is perhaps the most recognizable celebrity brand in the world.
His current high status, which has been enhanced by the tremendous success he has achieved, Deadpool and Wolverinein stark contrast to what Reynolds experienced a decade ago, when his 2013 supernatural comedy flopped disastrously. May God have mercy on youAfter the failure of his 2011 superhero film Green Lantern, This film put the actor's career in Hollywood in jeopardy and forced him to abandon the hit movie genre and reevaluate his career goals..
This subsequent period of reflection has yielded a diverse and interesting array of performances in Reynolds' career. Furthermore, if Green Lantern and May God have mercy on you If they realized their franchise potential, he would likely be banned from playing the antihero role in dead pool A film series that redefined his career and made him increasingly forgotten. May God have mercy on you It sounds like a bad dream.
RIPD is Ryan Reynolds' biggest flop
before May God have mercy on youRyan Reynolds, who made his film debut in the 2002 comedy Van WilderHe achieved his greatest commercial success as the male lead in the 2009 romantic comedy The proposal The 2012 thriller Safe HouseHowever, the success The proposal This has been largely credited to star Sandra Bullock, as was the case with Denzel Washington in Safe House.
Between these two films, Reynolds starred as the title character of the superhero film. Green Lanternwhich was easily the most severe test of his star power up to that point in his career. With a production cost of $200 million, Green Lantern Both the DC Extended Universe and Green Lantern Film series. However, it failed at the box office. Green Lanternwhich grossed nearly $220 million at the worldwide box office, These plans were killed and raised serious doubts about Reynolds' box office power..
Despite the failure Green LanternReynolds agreed to star in the film. May God have mercy on youwhich is inspired by the comic book series of the same name that was released in 1999. May God have mercy on youReynolds plays Nick Walker, a Boston police detective who, after his partner betrays and kills him, is recruited into the Peace Corps, where Nick, who appears as an elderly Asian man to the living, teams up with a long-dead Old West lawman, played by Jeff Bridges.
After the film grossed $12.7 million in its opening weekend, a figure well below its domestic opening of over $53 million. Green Lantern, highly criticized May God have mercy on you Its theatrical run ended with a miserable domestic haul of $33.6 million. And a global total of less than $80 million. May God have mercy on youwhich recorded a financial loss much greater than Green LanternIt became one of the biggest financial disasters of its time, as well as having a reputation as one of the worst comic book adaptations in history. In 2015, Los Angeles Times In an interview, Reynolds said:
“I did movies I wasn’t supposed to do because they were going to pay me, and that was very attractive and exciting at the time. When you get to Hollywood, and you come from where I come from, you think, ‘Of course. I [going] “to do it.”
Reynolds avoided hit movies after RIPD.
the next May God have mercy on you, Ryan Reynolds has entered a phase in his career where he prioritizes artistic quality over commercial appeal.He followed him. May God have mercy on you With the 2014 comedy horror movie Soundsin which he plays a factory worker who suffers from delusions and becomes convinced that his pets are talking to him and trying to force him to commit murder. Despite receiving excellent reviews, Sounds The film grossed approximately $2.2 million at the box office.
In the 2014 low-budget thriller The prisonerReynolds gives a powerful dramatic performance as the troubled father whose daughter is kidnapped. However, The prisonerAtom Egoyan's “The Last Hour” received negative reviews and grossed only about $2 million at the box office.
However, after that prisonerReynolds has received some of the best reviews of his career. For his multi-layered performance as a degenerate gambler in the 2015 comedy-drama film mississippi grindingwhich despite receiving excellent reviews from critics, grossed less than $500,000 at the box office. During this period, Reynolds showed little interest in his status as a Hollywood star, which he avoided establishing himself as a consummate character actor. In the 2015 biographical drama film woman in goldThe actor disappears into the role of a young lawyer trying to help an elderly Jewish woman, played by Helen Mirren, recover family property stolen by the Nazis.
One of the best performances of Reynolds' career can be found in a film that precedes Green Lantern and May God have mercy on youthe 2010 suffocating thriller buriedIn this film, he plays a truck driver living in Iraq who is buried alive in a wooden coffin with a few miscellaneous items, most notably a lighter and a phone, through which he can communicate with the outside world and perhaps gain freedom.
Deadpool changed Reynolds' career.
With a current worldwide box office total of around $1.3 billion, Deadpool and Wolverine It easily became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history, a record previously held by jokerWhile the success dead pool The film series turned Reynolds into a brand, and his trademark sarcastic Deadpool persona carried over to the rest of his career.
His recent acting career has been defined almost entirely by playing characters whose sarcastic appearances mask serious vulnerabilities.As seen in the 2021 action comedy film free man Comedy and action movie 2022 Adam ProjectThe result is that Reynolds's films, while undoubtedly entertaining, have become increasingly derivative, not unlike what happened in 2013, when he faced the biggest crossroads of his career. His last movie Deadpool and Wolverinein theaters now.
