Ryan Gosling & The Russo Brothers’ $200M Netflix Motion Franchise Seemingly No Longer Occurring

Netflix seems to be to have misplaced one other franchise, this time one from Ryan Gosling and the Russo brothers.

Primarily based on Mark Greaney’s 15-novel sequence of the identical identify, The Grey Man starred Gosling because the eponymous CIA murderer who finds himself a fugitive when a mission ends with him in possession of an encrypted drive of proof revealing the corruption of a CIA official. Alongside Gosling, the spy thriller featured a star-studded solid that included Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Regé-Jean Web page and Billy Bob Thornton.

Now, whereas talking with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan on the pink carpet premiere of the pirate motion thriller The Bluff, Anthony Russo provided an replace on the franchise plans for The Grey Man. The filmmaker, who directed the 2022 film, confirmed that there is not “any momentum information proper now” relating to the beforehand introduced future tasks, although did state that “there are undoubtedly lots of people nonetheless eager about it.”

Even previous to the primary movie’s launch, each Netflix and the Russos confirmed they’d large plans for increasing The Grey Man into a large franchise. A derivative, specializing in an unspecified character, was revealed to be within the works forward of the primary movie with Deadpool duo Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese writing, whereas a sequel was introduced with Gosling, Dhanush, and the Russos returning after its stable debut weekend viewership. The Russos additionally beforehand hinted at a possible spinoff for Dhanush’s character.

However regardless of being gung-ho about turning it right into a globe-spanning franchise, each replace about The Grey Man follow-ups has made the sequence’ future progressively extra unsure. A report in Might 2024 indicated that Gosling had not but entered talks to reprise his function for the introduced sequel, whereas Anthony Russo additionally confirmed in March 2025 that curiosity was nonetheless alive, however scheduling was proving the most important hurdle.

The Grey Man memorably got here as a part of Netflix’s push into blockbuster filmmaking territory, notably their efforts to launch an motion franchise. Along with the Gosling-led movie, which price $200 million to provide, additionally they had the Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot-starring Pink Discover, whose back-to-back sequels stay in limbo, and the Mark Wahlberg-led Spenser’s Confidential reboot additionally having a sequel lingering in improvement hell.

Furthermore, The Grey Man additionally infamously continued the Russo brothers’ lackluster post-Marvel Cinematic Universe streak. The Tom Holland-led crime drama Cherry didn’t resonate with critics, whereas each the Gosling starrer and adaptation of The Electrical State failed to go away a lot of an imprint, the latter of which additionally set their lowest Rotten Tomatoes report with a 14% approval ranking from critics. The duo additionally backed the interconnected Citadel universe at Prime Video, which is equally having issues getting its future sorted.

Whereas the probabilities appear progressively decrease with every new replace, it isn’t totally out of the realm of risk for the Russo brothers to lastly get The Grey Man again on monitor. Their Marvel tenure appeared over after Avengers: Endgame, solely to return for the upcoming Doomsday and Secret Wars. Plus, with the Chris Hemsworth-led Extraction movies, which Joe Russo penned, proving to be hits and correctly launching an interconnected franchise, their hopes for a sequel and spinoff could but nonetheless be realized.

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  Launch Date

  July 15, 2022
  

  Runtime

  122 minutes

  Writers

  Joe Russo, Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus

  
  

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  Created by

  Mark Greaney

  First Movie

  The Grey Man

  Newest Movie

  The Grey Man

  Upcoming Movies

  The Grey Man 2

  Forged

  Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jessica Henwick, Rege-Jean Web page, Wagner Moura, Julia Butters, Dhanush, Alfre Woodard, Billy Bob Thornton

  Film(s)

  The Grey Man

  The Grey Man franchise is an action-thriller sequence originating from Mark Greaney’s 2009 novel, The Grey Man. The narrative follows Court docket Gentry, a former CIA operative turned murderer, famend for his unparalleled talent and elusive nature. The franchise has expanded into movie diversifications, with Netflix producing the inaugural film in 2022