Ryan Reynolds enters safe house

Just last week it was reported that Ryan Reynolds headed up the list of young actors vying for the role opposite Denzel Washington in the David Guggenheim penned action thriller "Safe House" Now Toldja have word that he's in final negotiations to lock down the role into his busy schedule.

Having read the script I'd say Reynolds is a very good choice for the young CIA agent tasked with getting Denzel's veteran badass to the Safe House. I'm really hoping this one doesn't get delayed, this is just the kind of original high concept action film I was lamenting the loss of the other day, given the role has been so hotly contested it gives me hope that it will be made as a summer blockbuster.

Days after Deadline revealed Ryan Reynolds was front runner for the Safe House  role chased by every hot young actor in town, the actor is now negotiating to play the young CIA agent who must transport a dangerous criminal (Washington) to safety after both are attacked at a safe house. The Universal drama is directed by Daniel Espinosa and produced by Scott Stuber.

CAA is negotiating not only the deal, but how to fit the film into an array of plum projects that came to Reynolds after last summer's breakout trifecta of The Proposal, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and landing the hotly contested title role of Green Lantern in the Martin Campbell-directed film.

Reynolds, who'll next be seen in the Rodrigo Cortes-directed thriller Buried--he is in every frame of the movie, trapped underground in a coffin beneath the sand in Iraq--will start work in October in The Change-Up, the David Dobkin-directed Universal pic. If they can make a deal, Safe House follows early next year.