We’ve got a good feeling about The Fall Guy, the new action-comedy movie starring fan favourites Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt that will hit screens in the not too distant future.
The film – which follows the story of a stuntman who ends up on a mission to track down an AWOL A-list actor in a bid to save his film director ex-girlfriend’s movie – is something of a love letter to stunt performers thanks to filmmaker David Leitch, who also directed Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Bullet Train.
Ryan himself has also spoken out about giving credit to the various stunt performers that appear in the movie, saying at CinemaCon back in April 2023: “In most films, the actors get all the credit, but the stunt performers do all the work, and that ends today.”
Director David is also a former stuntman, having stepped in for the likes of Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum and Brad Pitt in Fight Club and Mr & Mrs Smith. You can expect plenty of incredible action in the film – which was even shot in an old-school way at times – since he told Vanity Fair: “Obviously in modern cinema we have the use of CGI, and we use it liberally. But when we’re making a love letter to stunts and the blue-collar crews that make these movies come to life, we explored doing old-school high falls into airbags, and jumping a car as far as we could, and rolling a car as many times as we could.”
The film is already getting plenty of attention since its trailer release on 2 November 2023, and will be Emily and Ryan’s first project together (and something of a Barbenheimer meeting of minds, since both starred in the two of the biggest films of 2023). Here’s everything you need to know about The Fall Guy, including its much-awaited release date…
What is the plot of The Fall Guy?
Described as a “love letter to action movies and the hard-working and under-appreciated crew of people who make them,” The Fall Guy is based on the 1980s TV show of the same name, and blends action, comedy and romance in one seamless blend. Nice.
Here’s the official plotline: “He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
“Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman who, having left the business a year earlier to focus on both his physical and mental health, is drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie — being directed by his ex, Jody Moreno, played by Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt — goes missing.