Dwayne Johnson’s action heist film Red Notice, starring Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, is the most-watched original film in Netflix history.<\/b>
\nThe Rock has taken his place atop Netflix\u2019s mountain of content, as \u201cRed Notice\u201d is now officially the most popular original film in the streamer\u2019s history. The streamer announced on Tuesday that the original heist action comedy from Seven Bucks Productions was the No.1 film for the third week in a row, and has officially become Netflix\u2019s most popular film with 328.80M total hours viewed after 17 days. It unseats the previous champion \u201cBird Box,\u201d as the 2018 Sandra Bullock thriller dominated the Netflix charts for the last three years. This is fortuitous for the streamer, as \u201cRed Notice\u201d was originally set up at Universal Pictures and Legendary before moving over to Netflix following a disagreement with Universal over the creative direction of the film. Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, \u201cRed Notice\u201d stars Dwayne Johnson as an FBI agent who is forced to team up with a thief played by Ryan Reynolds in order to best another thief, played by Gal Gadot. While the film didn\u2019t quite light up Rotten Tomatoes, it appears to have scored big with audiences, and producer Hiram Garcia told TheWrap before the film was released that Netflix was already eager for them to make a sequel. Indeed, \u201cRed Notice\u201d ends in such a manner that sets the dynamic trio up to return in a follow-up, but Thurber has been teasing recently that they may go ahead and make two \u201cRed Notice\u201d sequels at the same time in order to bang out a trilogy \u2013 and because coordinating the schedules of Johnson, Reynolds and Gadot once was tricky enough. Netflix\u2019s metric of hours viewed means that Martin Scorsese\u2019s epically long \u201cThe Irishman\u201d still sits in the #4 position with 214.57 million hours viewed, while the leaner Chris Hemsworth actioner \u201cExtraction\u201d is in third place with 231.34 million hours viewed. With regards to the latter, Hemsworth and Co. are currently in production on an \u201cExtraction\u201d sequel, so a formal \u201cRed Notice\u201d sequel announcement now feels like a given. Up next for Johnson is the release of his DC Comics debut in the Warner Bros. film \u201cBlack Adam,\u201d while Gadot recently signed on to play the Evil Queen in Disney\u2019s live-action \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u201d reboot. Reynolds, meanwhile, will next be seen on Netflix in the Shawn Levy-directed sci-fi drama \u201cThe Adam Project\u201d opposite Mark Ruffalo.<\/p>\n