Trivia / The Gray Man (2022)

• All-Star Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Alfre Woodard, Regé-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick and Billy Bob Thornton.
• Dueling-Stars Movie: Ryan Gosling vs Chris Evans.
• Fake American:
  • Regé-Jean Page and Jessica Henwick, who play Denny Carmichael and Suzanne Brewer, are Brits.
  • Canadian Ryan Gosling, who plays the title character, is Canadian.
  • Ana de Armas, who plays Dani Miranda, was born in Cuba.
• Playing Against Type: Chris Evans, who is known for playing heroes such as Captain America, is playing the main villain here, similar to Knives Out.
• Production Posse:
  • Chris Evans and The Russo Brothers reteam for their fifth collaboration together. Additionally, Callan Mulvey and Alfre Woodard worked with the Russos on Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, respectively.
  • Frequent Russo Brothers collaborator Henry Jackman reunites with the directors to compose the score. So do MCU writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
  • This is the second time that both Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans have worked with Ana de Armas, who starred in Blade Runner 2049 with the former and Knives Out with the latter. De Armas and Evans would star together again in Ghosted.
• Throw It In!: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans were encouraged to come up with most of their lines. In particular, Six and Lloyd's first face-to-face interaction was entirely improvised.
• What Could Have Been:
  • James Gray was originally attached to direct a film version of the novel in 2011 for Columbia Pictures and New Regency, with Brad Pitt attached to star.
  • After Gray and Pitt departed, a gender-flipped version starring Charlize Theron entered development in 2015, with the screenplay to be written by the Russos (who had opted out of directing at the time in order to focus on Captain America: Civil War), but ultimately went nowhere, with the Russos coming back to the project to direct when it moved to Netflix.
  • The movie was originally given an R-rating.
  • Chris Evans was originally given the main role before deciding to play the main antagonist.

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