Ryan Gosling is heading to Sydney to shoot a movie based on a 1980s TV series about a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter.
The star of La La Land, The Nice Guys and Blade Runner 2049 will take on a role previously played by Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man) in The Fall Guy.
Ryan Gosling is coming to Australia. Credit:AP
It is the latest film and television project that Universal Filmed Entertainment Group will shoot in Australia after a slate of production in Queensland, including the George Clooney and Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise and the TV series Young Rock, which is up to its second season, as well as Joe vs. Carole and Irreverent.
Gosling, who has been filming opposite Margot Robbie in Barbie, might not be in Sydney for a while given he has two other movies in pre-production: Wolfman and The Actor.
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In the cheesy TV series The Fall Guy, Majors, Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas played stunt performers who used their Hollywood knowledge to catch criminals.
Majors’ character, Colt Seavers, and his team hunted swindlers, thieves, bikies, conmen, fugitives and corrupt officials, sometimes disguising themselves, over five seasons from 1981 to 1986.
The Fall Guy was created by Glen A. Larson, whose other series included Battlestar Galactica, Quincy M.E., Magnum P.I. and Knight Rider.
While neither director nor start date for the movie have been announced, it is to receive $30 million in funding from the federal government’s location incentive scheme and $14.5 million from the state government’s Made in NSW fund.
Ryan Gosling heads to Australia to shoot big-budget Hollywood movie The Fall Guy
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