Ryan Gosling will not be appearing in the forthcoming event film from Academy Award-winning pair Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
The Oscar-nominated actor, 45, has withdrawn from the Universal film, which has yet to be titled, industry sources told Deadline on Thursday.
The motion picture from the Oscar-winning directors of 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once had been looking at locating the production in Los Angeles in order to obtain a California Tax Credit, sources told the outlet.
The movie had been slated to commence filming this summer, which was an issue, sources told Deadline, as it ‘was unable to move off its targeted date.’
The timing issues potentially cause a scheduling conflict involving Gosling, who has been seen in films such as Barbie, The Fall Guy and The Notebook.
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Ryan Gosling will not be appearing in the forthcoming event film from Academy Award-winning pair Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Pictured March 18 in NYC
The Daniels remain on schedule with the untitled project, sources told Deadline, which has a tentative release date of November 19, 2027.
The auteurs should have no problem casting Gosling’s replacement considering his enthusiastic endorsement of the script, insiders told the outlet.
Details of the storyline for the movie – which the filmmakers are producing via their Daniels’ Playgrounds company with Jonathan Wang – remain unclear.
Kwan told Collider at SXSW he expects the film to be ‘very existential and a ‘fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart.’
He said audiences can anticipate the film to be ‘all those things that you would hope that one of our movies would be.’
Kwan said that the changing times in culture has led to tweaks in the story.
‘One of the reasons why it’s taking so long,’ he said, ‘is 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.’
The movie ‘will also feature an ensemble made up of younger talent’ around ‘high school ages,’ an insider told The Hollywood Reporter.
Scheiner and Kwan are the Oscar-winning directors of 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once
The directors pictured at the 2023 Oscars, where the movie captured seven awards
Gosling has been busy as of late promoting Project Hail Mary
Gosling has been busy as of late promoting his hit motion picture Project Hail Mary.
The Amazon MGM release also stars Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, Lionel Boyce, Milana Vayntrub and Ken Leung.
The sci-fi film from directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller has taken in more than $334 million in global box office since it arrived in theaters March 20.
The Canadian actor is also slated to work on the motion picture Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Shawn Levy and features Amy Adams and Mia Goth.
That installment in the George Lucas franchise is set to arrive next year in theaters.
