Ryan Reynolds Describes 'The Adam Project' As An '80's Wish Fulfillment' Movie - A True Family Film Like 'Back To The Future' or 'E.T.'
They really don't make too many movies like The Goonies or E.T. anymore. The days of films that blurred the lines between 'kids' movie' and just 'movie' got lost somewhere in the grand shuffle that was the Disney Renaissance (and the birth of CGI studios like Pixar and Dreamworks) - but according to the much-beloved actor Ryan Reynolds, the upcoming Netflix film The Adam Project is going to change all that.
"It's a little bit old-fashioned with an '80s wish-fulfillment, meaning something amazing or even supernatural happens to a kid but he's home by dinner, and his parents have no clue....the type of movie we were weaned on. Movies like E.T., Back to the Future, Stand by Me and Goonies all appealed to kids as if they were adults."
Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell attend The Adam Project Los Angeles special screening at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on February 15, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Netflix)
"Now, in the modern age of entertainment, we tend to bifurcate those by saying that kids' movies are really kids' movies, and grown-up movies are grown-up movies, while we're being blasted with a fire hose of content 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
The Adam Project will star Mark Ruffalo and newcomer Walker Scobell alongside Reynolds, who will play his late father and his younger self, respectively. Together, the trio will have to save the future - while Reynolds comes to terms with his past.
Chrissy Teigen, Ryan Reynolds and John Legend attend The Adam Project Los Angeles special screening at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on February 15, 2022 in West Hollywood, California.
Casting the child version of Ryan Reynolds actually proved to be pretty easy - they just picked the one who had every single line of Deadpool memorized.
"When Walker was reading, I was reading along with him and looking at him through the Zoom screen while texting [the director] Shawn Levy, "Our work is done here." I mean, come on. We knew right away that, of course, it had to be Walker."
You can see exactly how similar Reynolds and his young counterpart are when The Adam Project premieres on Netflix March 11.
