Rege-Jean Page is counting his lucky stars he got that part in ‘Bridgerton’ as his career is soaring since the series aired. Page, alongside Billy Bob Thornton, have joined the Russo Brother’s action-thriller ‘The Gray Man’.

Alfre Woodard has also joined the cast alongside the previously announced, Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, and Dhanush and Julia Butters.

Based on the 2009 Mark Greaney novel that introduced the Gray Man, a freelance assassin and former CIA operative named Court Gentry. The action-thriller is said to be a deadly duel between killers as Gentry (Gosling) is hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former cohort of Gentry’s at the CIA.

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The Russos’ AGBO is producing the film. The script was written by Joe Russo, with a polish by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who scripted the Russo-directed ‘Captain America’ and ‘Avengers’ films.

The film, which is commissioned by Netflix, is said to be the streaming giants most financially ambition movie to date with a budget upward of $200 million. The hope is to create a franchise on the same level as James Bond.