We have recognized for some time that director David Leitch and actor Ryan Gosling had been growing a brand new film primarily based on Nineteen Eighties TV sequence The Fall Man. Emily Blunt jumped aboard in August and the newest replace is that Aaron Taylor-Johnson will even star.

The unique present ran between 1981-1986, and was created by prolific producer Glen A. Larson. It starred Lee Majors as a Hollywood stunt man. To make ends meet, he has a facet hustle as a bounty hunter, chasing swindlers, thieves, bikers, conmen, fugitives and corrupt officers, generally utilising disguises.

Based on The Hollywood Reporter‘s story on Taylor-Johnson’s casting, Drew Pearce’s script throws out the facet gig to give attention to our hero’s troubled film profession.

Gosling is on as a battered and past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself again on a film with the star he labored with way back and who changed him. The issue, nevertheless, is that the star is now lacking…

Taylor-Johnson will play the film star that Gosling is doubling, whereas Blunt is a prosthetic make-up artist that has a romantic previous with our stuntman.

This marks a reunion for Leitch and Taylor-Johnson after the latter performed murderer Tangerine within the former’s final film, Bullet Practice.

The cameras are cranking now and The Fall Man is presently scheduled to hit cinemas in March 2024.

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