Ryan Gosling Will Star In The Untitled New Film From The Daniels

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, AKA the Daniels, have recruited Ryan Gosling for another sci-fi mission.

Ryan Gosling, as it turns out, really digs sci-fi. On a recent episode of Kermode & Mayo’s Take he was pressed about his fave SF film and landed on James Cameron‘s The Abyss, which is a deeper cut than most can manage. And, of course, he now famously read Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary before publication, and that’s the reason there’s now a hit movie starring Goz in cinemas right now, and talk of a sequel already rumbling. I’d bet money he’s brute-forced his way through at least one Peter F. Hamilton doorstopper, and those are nigh-unreadable.

And Gosling’s nerditry may go some lengths to explain why he’s just signed up for what will be his third science fiction movie in a row. There’s Project Hail Mary, of course, and he’s got Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter out in 2027, having wrapped principal photography in December. But now comes news from The Hollywood Reporter that he’ll star in the so far title-free next project from the Daniels, known separately as Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the guys behind Swiss Army Man and the Best Picture-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once.

As we noted, the Universal production doesn’t even have a name yet, but it does have a release date: November 19, 2027. That’s about six months after Star Wars: Starfighter hits the screen. And there certainly aren’t any plot specifics in play, but Kwan previously described the film as a “…fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential. All those things that you would hope that one of our movies would be.”

He went on to explain that it was taking a while because, “…what we’re feeling and what we’re hearing from the world is very complex and really nuanced, and there’s so much paradox. To kind of reconcile all those things and put them into one movie, it takes time.”

Given how good EEAAO was, I’m happy to wait.