Ryan Reynolds doesn’t only do acting and soccer.
The Welcome to Wrexham chief and Hollywood star is now leading a docuseries about the SailGP team he co-owns with Deadpool & Wolverine co-star Hugh Jackman.
The docuseries about the BONDS Flying Roos team will see Australia’s fastest sailors travel the globe to face elite rivals while onboarding their world-famous owners, led on the water by driver and CEO Tom Slingsby, one of the most decorated sailors in history. The global racing season is defined by speed – a stadium-style championship where identical 50-foot catamarans race in close-to-shore courses at speeds of up to 100 km/h.
Jackman and Reynolds last collaborated on Deadpool & Wolverine but reunited to buy the SailGP team and now come together again for the docuseries. Reynolds is of course no stranger to a Disney doc. The FX cameras have been following his co-owned soccer team Wrexham in Wales for five seasons so far. Wrexham co-chairman and Welcome to Wrexham EP Rob Mac will serve as EP of the untitled sailing docuseries through his More Better Productions banner.
Last year, Reynolds’ Maximum Effort production house, which is making the sailing docuseries, struck a first look deal at 20th Television.
“This is our first collaboration since Deadpool & Wolverine and we once again anticipate action, comedy, heart but with a lot more water. And (fingers crossed) pirates. We hope there’s pirates in SailGP,” said Jackman and Reynolds.
The untitled docuseries for Disney+ is an Australian original produced by Maximum Effort and Eureka Productions in partnership with SailGP and the BONDS Flying Roos team, with Brent Hodge serving as director and showrunner. The new docuseries will be available exclusively on Disney+ internationally and on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S.