After choosing director David Leitch (“Bullet Train,” “Deadpool 2”) to helm their first “Fast & Furious” spinoff movie “Hobbs & Shaw,” Universal Pictures is reuniting with the action-focused filmmaker for a characteristic movie model of the ’80s sequence “The Fall Guy.” An spectacular assortment of actors has already been assembled, with Ryan Gosling (“Blade Runner 2049”), Emily Blunt (“Edge of Tomorrow”), and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Bullet Train”) connected to the undertaking.
With filming already underway, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that one other position has been crammed as Winston Duke has been enlisted to play the lead’s finest pal. Duke, in fact, is an actor on the rise taking part in M’Baku in each the favored “Black Panther” and “Avengers” franchises inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe, alongside taking a key half in Jordan Peele’s horror thriller, “Us.”
The movie remake penned by screenwriter Drew Pearce (“Iron Man 3”) is a brand new take and isn’t a direct adaptation of the Eighties sequence starring Lee Major. Instead, this newest incarnation will deal with a battered and past-his-prime stuntman (Gosling) who finds himself again in a film with the star for whom he doubled way back and who changed him. The wrinkle within the plot, nevertheless, is that the star (Taylor-Johnson) has gone lacking.
Gosling most not too long ago performed a spy in Netflix’s mega-expensive streaming blockbuster “The Gray Man” for The Russo Brothers and is ready to steer a brand new “Wolf Man” remake movie at Universal. He co-starred with Margot Robbie in a live-action “Barbie” movie by director Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”).
Production on “The Fall Guy” started this week in Australia, which ought to assist differentiate it visually from earlier motion movies from Leitch. A villain has but to floor, which is odd, however I’m certain we’ll hear about that casting quickly.