Ryan Reynolds Sees Make-Believe Creatures Made Real in ‘IF’ Fantasy Comedy Trailer

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Ryan Reynolds discovers his daughter can see everyone’s imaginary friends from their childhood in the teaser trailer for John Krasinski’s fantasy comedy IF, which dropped on Thursday.

Not to be confused with IT, the 2017 supernatural horror pic, IF sees a perplexed Reynolds go on a lighthearted magical adventure with adorable creatures as his daughter, Bea, played by Cailey Fleming, uses her superpower to reconnect forgotten IFs with those that created them in the first place as kids, only to then grow up.

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“What kind of kid creates an invisible IF?” Reynolds questions at one point in the trailer as he forms an unlikely bond with Bea over her imaginary creatures hatched by childhood minds. In the end, IF promises viewers they may find the inner kid in all of us as “You have to believe to see” becomes the tagline for the Paramount pic set to hit theaters on May 17, 2024.

“This is a movie that John and I have been talking about for years now, something that feels a bit like a live action Pixar film,” Reynolds added in a featurette for IF also released on Thursday.

The fantasy pic also marks a reunion between the A Quiet Place director and Carrell, Krasinski’s The Office co-star who plays Blue, an enormous teddy bear in IF. The IFs are also voiced by Matt Damon, Jon Stewart, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt, Maya Rudolph, Sam Rockwell,  Louis Gossett Jr., Sebastian Maniscalco, Chris Meloni, Richard Jenkins and Awkwafina.

Krasinski also wrote IF, and produced the movie along with Reynolds, Andrew Form and Allyson Seeger, while John J. Kelly and George Dewey share the executive producer credits.

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