Aaron Taylor-Johnson will join Ryan Gosling in "The Fall Guy", a film adaptation of the 1980s adventure television series at Universal Pictures.

The movie also stars Emily Blunt and will be helmed by John Wick and Bullet Train director David Leitch. The original TV series created by Glen A. Larson, which ran between 1981 and 1986, followed Hollywood stuntman and bounty hunter Colt Seavers, who uses his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers with some help. However, in the new film, takes away the bounty hunter part and will see Gosling as a past-his-time stuntman who finds himself back in a movie with the star he worked with a long time ago and is the one who replaced him. However, things take a turn when the star goes missing.

Taylor-Johnson will play the movie star that Gosling is doubling, while Blunt is a prosthetic makeup artist that has a romantic past with our stuntman.

Taylor-Johnson's recent credits also include appearances in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man. The actor takes center stage in his next film, Kraven the Hunter, Sony’s take on the classic Spider-Man villain. That movie is due to hit theaters Oct. 6, 2023.

Source: Press Release