6 Underground (2019)
- Before Ryan Reynolds was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The original script for 6 Underground was written over a decade before production finally began in 2019.
- The incredible score for 6 Underground was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
6 Underground is a 2019 American action thriller directed by Michael Bay, produced for Netflix. Ryan Reynolds stars as "One," a tech billionaire who fakes his own death and assembles a team of five other individuals — each with specialized skills including a CIA operative, a hitman, a spy, a doctor, and a thief — who have also faked their deaths to become ghosts, free to operate outside the law. Their mission: overthrow the brutal dictator of the fictional country of Turgistan.
Michael Bay brought his full arsenal of visual excess to the streaming format — the opening car chase through Florence, lasting 20 minutes and destroying dozens of vehicles and an entire palazzo, was the most relentlessly destructive sequence Bay had ever filmed. The Netflix budget reportedly exceeded $150 million, and the result was Bay's vision unrestrained by theatrical ratings concerns or studio notes. 6 Underground was viewed by over 83 million accounts in its first four weeks on Netflix.
