The Fall Guy Trailer: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt Star In Explosive Love Letter To Stunt Performers

Ryan Gosling takes a spill (and then some) in The Fall Guy, the latest movie from Bullet Train and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch.   

Based on a 1980s TV series of the same name starring Lee Majors, The Fall Guy follows Gosling’s Colt Seavers, a stuntman tasked with tracking down the A-lister (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) he’s doubling for in a blockbuster extravaganza.

Emily Blunt plays ex-girlfriend Jody, who happens to be the troubled production’s director. If Colt doesn’t locate his AWOL star pronto, his career as well as Jody’s will go up in flames.

So why Colt?

“You’re a stunt man, nobody’s going to notice you — that’s your job,” says one character played by Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham in the trailer.

Leitch and Gosling are no strangers to the stunt world: the former was Brad Pitt’s longtime stunt double; the latter played a stuntman-cum-getaway-driver-for-hire in Drive.

Judging from the trailer — soundtracked with Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’ — The Fall Guy has a Tropic Thunder vibe.

Gosling is in goofball mode; his Colt is like a cross between Ken and Holland March, the bumbling private investigator in the under-rated The Nice Guys.

“It just feels like we’re paying homage to the stunt community and to, really, cinema and those of us who make the movies,” producer Kelly McCormick teased in a 2022 Collider interview. “And it’s sort of a love letter to the industry. On top of it just being really fun and what I think will be a really good time for the audience.”

In the original series, which aired from 1981 to 1986, Majors’ Colt moonlights as a bounty hunter. According to IMDB, Majors has a cameo in the shot-in-Sydney film, which also stars Winston Duke, Stephanie Hsu and Teresa Palmer. 

Watch the trailer here: