Ryan Gosling has performed a stuntman moonlighting on different gigs within the likes of The Place Past The Pines and Drive. He is again on the stunt-with-extras beat for a brand new film, however this time he’ll be on the appropriate facet of the legislation. Gosling is hooked up to star in a film adaptation of Eighties TV collection The Fall Man.

With David Leitch within the director’s chair, that is reportedly what the duo had been first talked about collaborating on again in 2020, when the movie was merely often known as “untitled stuntman motion drama”.

The unique collection, which ran between 1981-1986, was created by prolific producer Glen A. Larson and starred Lee Majors as a Hollywood stunt man. To make ends meet, he has a facet hustle as a bounty hunter.

Majors’ Colt Seavers labored alongside Douglas Barr’s Howie Munson and Heather Thomas’ Jody Banks, utilizing their Hollywood data to catch criminals. They hunted swindlers, thieves, bikers, conmen, fugitives and corrupt officers, generally utilising disguises.

This is not the primary time somebody has tried to make this one – McG and Dwayne Johnson had been hooked up again in 2013.

Leitch, who is aware of a factor or two about being a stuntman who takes on different jobs (like, say, co-directing the primary John Wick and shifting on to such movies as Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2 and the incoming Bullet Prepare), will shoot the brand new film in Australia, which is kicking in $30 million in incentives to have Common make it in Sydney.

No begin date has been confirmed but, however Leitch is busy making ready to make this one now that Bullet Prepare is able to pull into cinemas on 5 August. Gosling, in the meantime shall be seen in The Grey Man, due in cinemas on 15 July after which on Netflix 22 July. He and co-star Chris Evans are additionally gracing the quilt of the most recent Empire, which is in all good, evil and digital newsagents now.