Mayday First Look Featuring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh

Today at the 2026 Apple TV Press Day, Apple TV unveiled a first-look photo for the upcoming feature, Mayday. The film’s stars, Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, announced that Mayday will premiere globally on Apple TV on Friday, September 4, 2026.

Reynolds and Branagh team up in Mayday, a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head. When hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly (Reynolds) 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.

Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he’s toast — but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy’s rescue and a bond neither saw coming?

Alongside Reynolds and Branagh, the ensemble cast includes Marcin Dorocinski, Maria Bakalova, David Morse, and more.

An Apple Original Film hailing from Skydance Media, Mayday is written, directed, and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger produce for Skydance, alongside Maximum Effort’s Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau.

Reynolds and George Dewey, through Maximum Effort, along with John G. Scotti, serve as executive producers.

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