Ryan Reynolds teams up with his younger self in The Adam Project images

The Adam Project finds Ryan Reynolds playing Adam Reed, “a wounded time traveler from 2050 who has ventured into the past on a rogue rescue mission to search for Laura (Zoe Saldana), the woman he loves, who got lost in the time-space continuum under mysterious circumstances. When Adam’s ship gets damaged, he’s sent spiraling back to 2022, and the only place he knows from this era of his life: home.” There, he meets up with his twelve-year-old self (Walker Scobell) and must come to terms with his past in order to save the future. Despite the sci-fi premise, The Adam Project also happens to be Ryan Reynolds’ most personal film to date and Netflix have released a handful of new images from the upcoming film.

Ryan Reynolds told Vanity Fair that part of The Adam Project was influenced by his own strained relationship with his father, who died in 2020. “I have this thought about life, which is that we tell ourselves stories,” Reynolds said. “So you have this central character who has told himself a story about his own father that isn’t necessarily true. I know that I’ve done that in my life. I’ve told myself stories to justify things about my father and my complicated relationship I had with him before he passed. Reconciling that is really difficult.” Director Shawn Levy said that Reynolds brought him the script by Jonathan Tropper as they were finishing Free Guy, but the two films couldn’t be more different. “This character is night-and-day different from the character Ryan played for me in our last movie,” Levy said. “Blue Shirt Guy is a deeply innocent, naive boy in a man’s body. Whereas Adam Reed in The Adam Project is bruised by life and consequently deeply cynical.“

In addition to Ryan Reynolds, Zoe Saldana, and Walker Scobell, The Adam Project also stars Mark Ruffalo as Adam Reed’s father, a scientist who helped develop time travel technology but didn’t live to see it utilized or his son grow up. Jennifer Garner also co-stars as Adam’s mother, who is struggling to raise young Adam after her husband’s death.

The Adam Project is slated to hit Netflix on March 11, 2022. What do you think of the images so far?