Ryan Gosling uses grenades, battle rifles, handguns, and assassin skills to take on a psychotic Chris Evans, in the trailer for Netflix’s megabudget summer action-thriller The Gray Man.
Based on a novel by Mark Greaney, Ryan Gosling plays Court Gentry, the CIA’s most skilled operative whose true identity is known to no one. When Court accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a moustachioed psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins. Check out the trailer below:
The Gray Man appears to set the stars in a classic adversarial relationship, complete with explosions, gunfights, car chases, and witty lines like, ‘You wanna make an omelette? You’ve gotta kill some people.’ Here’s the official synopsis:
The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.
With a budget of around $200 million, the film is reported to be the most expensive Netflix has ever produced. Suffice it to say, it would seem that the Russo brothers have earned a lot of trust in Hollywood. The duo previously directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame, with Endgame setting the all-time global box office record with $2.797 billion in 2019, but it was outperformed in 2021 by re-screenings of James Cameron’s 2010 sci-fi epic Avatar.
Also starring Rege-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Dhanush, Wagner Moura and Alfre Woodard, The Gray Man will premiere in select cinemas on 15 July 2022, and will be available on Netflix on 22 July 2022.
