Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling Set to Star in Netflix Thriller ‘The Gray Man’

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are set to star in The Gray Man, with the Russo brothers directing the film. The film reportedly has a budget of 200 million dollars. This is Netflix financially most ambitious feature film so far.

The Russo’s AGBO is producing, and the script is written by Joe Russo, with a polish by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who scripted the Russo-directed Captain America and Avengers films and who are Co-Presidents of Story at AGBO. It is based on the 2009 Mark Greaney novel that introduced the Gray Man, a freelance assassin and former CIA operative named Court Gentry.

The film will be produced by AGBO’s the Russo Brothers and Mike Larocca, along with Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for Roth Kirschenbaum. They are eyeing a January start date in Los Angeles with international locations being finalized.

The action thriller is 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. The Gray Man turned into a bestselling book series, and the expectation is that Gosling will continue in multiple installments. The project was developed years back at New Regency as a Brad Pitt/James Gray vehicle, but it stalled. The Russos have quietly been developing it for years.

The Russo Brothers AGBO, recently produced the action-thriller film Extraction with Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani and Randeep Hooda became the most watched Netflix original movie of all time. A sequel is in the works with Sam Hargrave returning as director and Joe Russo writing the script.

The Russo Brothers are also creating a live action version of Hercules at Disney, and they are adapting the novel Exit West with Netflix and Michelle and Barack Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.

_{Source: Deadline}