Ryan Gosling is currently being lined up to star in the feature film adaptation of the 1980s TV series ‘The Fall Guy.’
The Lee Majors led TV series followed Colt Seavers (Majors), a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a bounty hunter. He uses his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects to capture fugitives and criminals. Accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training Howie Munson (Barr), and occasionally by fellow stunt performer Jody Banks (Thomas).
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Universal Filmed Entertainment Group will shoot the project in Sydney, Australia with the project set to receive AUD$30 million in funding from the Australian federal government’s location incentive scheme. It will get a further AUD$14.5 million from the state government’s Made in NSW fund.
No writer or director is yet attached. Gosling will next be seen in the Netflix feature from the Russo brothers ‘The Gray Man’ who he stars opposite Chris Evans. His upcoming projects will see him star alongside Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie,’ Derek Cianfrance’s ‘Wolfman,’ and the crime drama ‘The Actor.’
