In the last three years, we’ve seen Ryan Gosling do existential comedy (Barbie), action comedy (The Fall Guy), and sci-fi comedy (Project Hail Mary) all at blockbuster event level. For the Canadian national treasure and leading source of Kenergy in Hollywood’s next leading role however, the man is going one step further with an existential sci-fi action comedy. You could even say that he’s kinda doing everything, everywhere, all at once. Yes, in case that clue wasn’t on the nose enough, Deadline is reporting that Gosling is set to lead Daniels Kwan and Scheinert’s new event movie at Universal Pictures — the duo’s first film since their Oscar-winning smash Everything Everywhere All At Once.
As Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary continues to amaze amaze amaze at the box office, smashing records left, right, and centre, it looks like Ryan Gosling is wasting no time lining up his next major movie. Even with Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter on the horizon and in the can already, too, The Gos (as nobody calls him) clearly couldn’t resist a chance to work with the guys behind EEAAO and Swiss Army Man. Due to start shooting in Los Angeles later this summer, the Daniels’ latest has been wrapped in a shroud of secrecy ever since an Untitled Daniels Event Movie was first slated for 19 November, 2027. But while the plot of the film remains under lock and key for now, a recent Collider interview with Daniel Kwan did see the filmmaker tease that fans can expect a movie that’s “fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential.” In other words, a Daniels movie.
Elsewhere in that same interview, Kwan shared that “The only thing you need to know is we are trying to do what we have always done, which is listen very deeply to what is happening in the world and try to internalize that and make something really fun and entertaining that kind of reflects that story back to the world.” Given the emotionally potent yet batshit insane multiversal shenanigans of Everything Everywhere All At Once, suffice it to say that the Daniels trying to ‘do what we have always done’ is absolutely fine by us. And with Gosling in play too, currently on the finest form of his career, 19 November, 2027 can’t come soon enough. And you can fist our bump to that!
