Audiences are finally getting a peek at a long-awaited big-screen adaptation of a classic television show.Vanity Fairhas revealed a first look atThe Fall Guy,Universal Pictures' upcoming action thriller starringRyan GoslingandEmily Blunt.TheDavid Leitch-directed film is a revival of the ABC series of the same name, which ran from 1981 to 1986. The first look reveals how the upcoming film will stay true to the source material, while also adapting it for a modern audience.
The film stars Gosling as Colt Seavers, an aging Hollywood stuntman who is recovering from an on-set accident that nearly cost him his life. He eventually crosses paths with Jody Moreno (Blunt), his former lover who is now working as the director of a sci-fi western film. Seavers agrees to help Moreno with her film, but ends up getting more than he bargained for when the project’s star ends up going missing. Photos via Vanity Fair show Gosling’s character mid-stunt, as he hangs from a camera crane while under the watchful eye of Blunt. Other images show the duo sharing a moment with each other between takes, as well as a stoic-looking Gosling. Then it’s back to the action, as some final shots show Gosling consulting with Leitch, as well as hanging off the back of a fast-moving trash bin.
The original show starredLee Majors,with a version of Seavers that was a stuntman during the day while moonlighting as a bounty hunter. Both versions are able to use their physicality to their advantage, and Leitch said that hewanted his film to pay homageto the real-life sacrifices made by stunt performers. “The consequences are real, a thousand percent,” Leitch told Vanity Fair ofThe Fall Guy’sstunt sequences. “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.”
Development onThe Fall Guywas first announced back in 2010, withDwayne Johnsonoriginally slated for the lead role. The film then went through years of development hell before Universaltapped Goslingto lead the project in 2022.Blunt was addedas his co-star later that year, and the film was finally able to get off the ground.
In addition to Gosling and Blunt,The Fall Guyalso stars an A-list ensemble ofAaron-Taylor Johnson,Hannah Waddingham,Winston Duke, Teresa PalmerandStephanie Hsu. Leitch directed the film from a screenplay byDrew Pierce.Leitch produces alongside his wifeKelly McCormickvia their 87North Productions' first-look deal with Universal.Guymon Casadyproduces for his Entertainment 360 banner. Gosling serves as an additional producer.
The Fall Guyis scheduledto be releasedin theaters in the U.S. on June 01, 2025.
The Fall Guy
A battered and past-his-prime stuntman finds himself back on a movie with the star for whom he doubled long ago and who replaced him. The wrinkle, however, is that the star has gone missing.
