Animal Friends: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn & Aubrey Plaza to star in live-action/animated hybrid film

Legendary has gathered an all-star cast for its upcoming R-Rated film Animal Friends, a live-action and animated feature with Peter Atencio on board as director! Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn and Aubrey Plaza have all been roped in to headline the new feature.

According to Deadline, plot details for the project, described as an R-rated road trip adventure, are being kept under wraps. The characters for live-action and animated feature come from writing duo Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider. The idea for the film came from a meeting between Burrows & Mider and Patrick Gooing, an executive at Reynolds’ production company, Maximum Effort.

On the work front, Reynolds is currently caught up with his hotly anticipated third Deadpool movie, starring opposite Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. The threequel will officially integrate the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Momoa recently headlined Apple's sci-fi drama series See and appeared in recent films like Slumberland, Dune, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and Aquaman franchise. The actor reprises his DC superhero in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which hits theaters on December 20.

Meanwhile, Vaughn is best known for roles in hit films like Freaky, Hacksaw Ridge, The Internship, The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Old School and Swingers. He recently wrapped production on Apple TV+ drama series Bad Monkey.

Speaking of Plaza, she is coming off her acclaimed starring turn alongside Will Sharpe, Meghann Fahy and Theo James in the second season of Mike White’s HBO smash The White Lotus. She recently wrapped production on Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi epic Megalopolis and in production for Disney+’s Marvel series Agatha: Coven of Chaos.

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