The Fall Guy: Winston Duke joins Ryan Gosling in David Leitch action movie

THR has reported that Winston Duke is set to join Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy, David Leitch’s feature-film adaptation of the classic 1980s series of the same name.

The Fall Guy series was created by Glen A. Larson and ran from 1981 to 1986 on ABC. Lee Majors starred as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlit as a bounty hunter. Using his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects, he travelled around the country, capturing fugitives and criminals. The movie will be ditching the bounty-hunting and focus on the stunts. Ryan Gosling will star as a “battered and past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself back on a movie with the star he worked with long ago and who replaced him. The problem, however, is that the star is now missing.” Winston Duke will play the best friend of the stuntman in The Fall Guy. The project will also star Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the movie star, Stephanie Hsu as the movie star’s assistant, and Emily Blunt as a prosthetic make-up artist who has a romantic past with the stuntman.

Production on The Fall Guy began this week in Australia, with David Leitch directing, as well as producing alongside Kelly McCormick through their 87North production banner. The script was penned by Drew Pearce, who worked with Leitch on Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Universe Pictures has slated The Fall Guy for a March 1, 2024 release.

Winston Duke will next be seen reprising his role of M’Baku in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which is set to hit theaters on November 11th. The Black Panther sequel will find Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fighting to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. When Namor, king of a hidden undersea nation, alerts them to a global threat and his disturbing plan to thwart it, the Wakandans band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.