Disney has just
announced that they are once again pushing back the release date on two of their biggest titles of the year. The house of mouse confirmed on November 5 that they are removing Ryan Reynolds’
Free Guy and Kenneth Branagh’s
Death on the Nile from their calendar.The action comedy starring Reynolds along with Jodie Cormer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi was originally scheduled to be released on July 3. Directed by Shawn Levy, the film stars Reynolds as Guy, a non-player character who lives inside a video game. When Guy gains awareness that his life is a scripted video game, he decides to step outside his storyline and become the hero. Levy and Reynolds produced the film together, and it faced its first schedule setback earlier this year with a move from July to December. Up until this week,
Free Guy was still listed as opening in theatres on December 11, but that changed with Disney’s latest announcement.[video_embed id='2040098']RELATED: Jann Arden invites Ryan Reynolds to play her boyfriend on her hit show 'Jann' [/video_embed]
Death on the Nile acts as a follow-up to 2017’s
Murder on the Orient Express. Branagh is set to reprise his role as world famous detective Hercule Poirot, with Tom Bateman also returning to play Bouc. Like
Murder on the Orient Express,
Death on the Nile also features an all-star ensemble cast that includes Annette Benning, Gal Gadot, Russell Brand, Letitia Wright, Armie Hammer, Ali Fazal, Rose Leslie, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Emma Mackey and Dawn French. The mystery was originally scheduled to be released on December 20, 2019 but the film was pushed back to October 9, 2020, then rescheduled again for October 23, 2020. Its latest revised date was December 18, 2020, almost one year after the film’s initial release date.In light of the recent underperforming box office numbers of Christopher Nolan’s
Tenet, both
Free Guy and
Death on the Nile have been completely removed from Disney’s schedule. No indication of when the films will arrive in theatres or be available to stream has been given.
Free Guy and
Death on the Nile are the latest in a long list of blockbusters that have been delayed or seen their release dates left uncertain in light of the ongoing pandemic. The highly anticipated upcoming 25
th James Bond film
No Time To Die was originally slated to open this past spring, but has been rescheduled for April 2, 2021.
F9, the ninth film in
The Fast and The Furious franchise, was supposed to open in May 2020, but has been postponed twice and is now left to rev its engine until May 28, 2021.Disney has already moved two of its biggest titles of the year to its streaming platform, Disney+.
Mulan was slated to open in March, but COVID-19 forced the film to be delayed until July 24 and again to August 21.
Mulan eventually became available for a premium fee on Disney+ on September 4. The Pixar film
Soul was also intended to be released in theatres, but Disney announced in October that the film would move to a streaming premiere on Disney+ on December 25. Unlike
Mulan, Soul will be included in the regular subscription price.After several delays,
Wonder Woman 1984 has been rescheduled for December 25, 2020. The Gal Gadot film is currently the only major blockbuster that is still on schedule to open in theatres this year.
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