Keanu Reeves and Deadpool Director Dive Into Shark-Infested Time-Travel Thriller Shiver

Time travel, sharks, Keanu Reeves, and the guy who made Deadpool a thing on screen. If that sounds like a Mad Lib you actually want to see, same here.

So, what is 'Shiver'?

The Hollywood Reporter says Keanu Reeves and director Tim Miller are teaming up on a deep-sea sci-fi thriller called 'Shiver'. Ian Shorr wrote the script, and Matthew Vaughn (yep, the Kingsman and Kick-Ass filmmaker) is producing. The premise is clean and gloriously unhinged: a smuggler botches a job in the Caribbean Sea and suddenly has more problems than sunburn. Cold-blooded mercenaries want him dead. Actual sharks also want a piece. And, because that’s apparently not enough, he gets stuck in a time loop. He has to figure out how to reach dry land and, ideally, a normal life, without ending up as lunch.

Who is doing what here

• Keanu Reeves is involved (the report doesn’t lock his exact role, but he’s part of the team).
• Tim Miller, who directed the first 'Deadpool', is collaborating on the project.
• Script is by Ian Shorr.
• Produced by Matthew Vaughn, the director behind 'Kingsman' and 'Kick-Ass'.
• News originated with The Hollywood Reporter.

Why this combo actually tracks

On paper, this sounds like 'Groundhog Day' smashed into 'The Shallows', and that vibe is very Tim Miller. He’s spent plenty of time building wild worlds, especially with Netflix’s animated anthology 'Love, Death & Robots'. The report also points to his work on Amazon’s 'Secret Level' — an anthology where each episode drops into a notable video game universe — and notes Reeves even pops up in a chapter set in the 'Armored Core' world. That’s a pretty nerdy footnote, but it explains why Miller would be into a high-concept survival story with a sci-fi twist. Sharks plus time loops is exactly the kind of swing you take if you like playing in big genre sandboxes.

Keanu’s calendar is already chaos

And yet, Reeves still finds time to add another genre bender. He’s expected to return as the Baba Yaga in a fifth 'John Wick' movie, and he’s developing an adaptation of his own comic, 'BRZRKR', with director Justin Lin. Honestly, a time loop might be the only way he gets to all of this.

Bottom line: a Caribbean crime caper that mutates into a shark attack movie and then a time-loop thriller? If they stick the landing, 'Shiver' could be the weird, pulpy crowd-pleaser its ingredients promise.