Kenneth Branagh stars in first-look clip for Ryan Reynolds film Mayday
Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh have teamed up for a new action-comedy coming to Apple TV this week – and Radio Times can exclusively reveal a first-look clip from the film. Mayday – which is set at the height of the cold war in the 1980s – is a buddy comedy that follows Reynolds’s Troy, a US Air Force pilot, after he lands behind enemy lines in Russia and finds an unlikely ally in the shape of a former KGB agent (played by Branagh). It is written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the duo who were previously behind hit 2018 comedy Game Night and the well-received fantasy adaptation Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. The action-packed clip begins with a man being frantically driven up to a plane as it’s preparing to take off and asking his driver to “pull up close to the cabin door.” Meanwhile, the characters played by Reynolds and Branagh are in the cockpit of the plane, with the former instructing the latter to close the plane’s …
