Ryan Reynolds Is Producing a Horror Movie Based on a Reddit Post

It looks like Ryan Reynolds is returning to his horror movie roots. No, he's not another stab at remaking The Amityville Horror. Variety reports that Reynolds will be adding yet another entry as "producer" to his resume, with an adaptation of Jasper DeWitt's The Patient Who Nearly Drove Me Out of Medicine for Twentieth Century Fox. Reynolds will be co-producing the film with Vertigo Entertainment.

Interestingly, the story comes from a popular Reddit post that was originally published on r/nosleep, a part of the site for "realistic" horror. "Everything is true here, even if it's not," the section reads. The story follows a young doctor who is attempting to solve a mystery about a certain patient.

The Patient Who Nearly Drove Me Out of Medicine ignited a fierce bidding war, with several major studios vying for the film rights. Reynolds will produce the film through his production company, Maximum Effort, which signed a deal with Fox earlier this year. Reynolds and his company are also set to produce a second big-screen adaptation of Clue, based on the Hasbro game, among other projects.

As the film has only just been announced, no director has been attached nor have any cast announcements been made.

[h/t: Variety]