{"id":9544,"date":"2026-05-20T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:15:04","slug":"matt-damon-in-talks-to-replace-ryan-gosling-in-the-daniels-secret-sci-fi-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/matt-damon-in-talks-to-replace-ryan-gosling-in-the-daniels-secret-sci-fi-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon In Talks To Replace Ryan Gosling In The Daniels\u2019 Secret Sci-Fi Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now here’s one for you: as a director, how do you recast an Oscar-nominated actor who’s just starred in an Odyssean epic for your secret new sci-fi blockbuster? The answer, at least if you happen to be Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/em> directorial duo The Daniels anyway, is you find yourself an Oscar-winning actor who’s just about to star in the<\/em> Odyssean epic. Yes, according to Deadline<\/em>, The Odyssey<\/em> star Matt Damon is reportedly in talks to replace Ryan Gosling in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s upcoming Universal sci-fi joint.<\/p>\n

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Fresh off the back of his winning turn in Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Project Hail Mary<\/em>, Ryan Gosling had<\/em> been announced as the lead for the Daniels’ latest at the beginning of last month, with production due to get underway in Los Angeles this summer. However, barely a week later, Gosling swiftly exited the project, with various sources citing ‘scheduling conflicts’ as the reason for the Canadian’s premature departure. According to Deadline<\/em>‘s sources, Damon \u2014 who had been planning some well deserved time off after shooting The Rip<\/em> and The Odyssey<\/em> last year \u2014 met with Kwan and Scheinert about the film recently, giving the duo a tentative thumbs-up. Should a deal close for Damon to star, that originally planned summer shoot will go ahead just as soon as the in-demand actor finishes the press tour for Christopher Nolan’s inbound IMAX epic.<\/p>\n

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Though details on Oscar winners The Daniels’ latest remain strictly hush-hush for now, we do know a little about what the guys are cooking over at Universal. Deadline<\/em> notes that the film is predominantly eyeing younger stars for its wider ensemble. Elsewhere, the movie was described by Daniel Kwan as “a fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart” that’s “very existential” in a recent Collider<\/em> interview \u2014 all of which fit the bill for Damon, who of course led Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi smash The Martian<\/em>. With Kwan and Scheinert’s film still slated for theatrical release on 19 November, 2027, watch this *ahem*<\/em> space for more updates in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n

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Now here’s one for you: as a director, how do you recast an Oscar-nominated actor who’s just starred in an Odyssean epic for your secret new sci-fi blockbuster? The answer, at least if you happen to be Everything Everywhere All At Once directorial duo The Daniels anyway, is you find yourself an Oscar-winning actor who’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}