Ryan Reynolds is getting gritty by signing up with a Spanish production company to star in Buried, playing a civilian contractor who’s kidnapped in Iraq and wakes up buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife. Who hasn’t had that happen to them?
It’s one of those movies with a neat premise, but it probably going to have to offer a bit more than claustrophobia to make it really worthwhile.
Production begins this month in Barcelona, under the direction of Rodrigo Cortes. It’s being reported Reynolds chose the indie flick to stretch his acting muscles playing Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and going the rom-com route with The Proposal, co-starring Sandra Bullock. Of course he’ll also be appearing in his own X-Men spin-off, Deadpool, which is currently due in 2011.