Apple TV Sets Release Date for Ryan Reynolds Film 'Mayday'

Apple TV has unveiled a first-look image and announced that the action film 'Mayday' will premiere globally on Apple TV on Friday, September 4, 2026. The project is billed as a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head. 'Mayday' follows U.S.

Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy "Assassin" Kelly, who is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War. The operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines until he is discovered by Nikolai Ustinov, a gruff ex-KGB agent, setting up an unlikely alliance.

The film is an Apple Original from Skydance Media, written, directed and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Producers include David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger for Skydance, with Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau for Maximum Effort; Ryan Reynolds and George Dewey, through Maximum Effort, and John G.

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