May 22 (UPI) -- Ryan Reynolds will star in director-producer Michael Bay's action movie Six Underground, which is set for a Netflix release in 2019.
No details regarding the plot or additional castings were immediately available.
Slated to begin filming this summer, the project is based on an original idea from Reynolds' Deadpool and Deadpool 2 collaborators, writer-producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
Netflix is producing Six Underground with Skydance Media, its partner on the comedy series Grace & Frankie.
"This marks the first collaboration between Skydance Media and Netflix for an event-level, feature film and the first Netflix project for both Michael Bay and Ryan Reynolds," a news release noted.
Bay is a filmmaker known for his work on the Transformers film franchise, as well as the blockbusters Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor and Armageddon.