Winston Duke has joined the cast of Ryan Gosling's "The Fall Guy" film adaptation for Universal.

Duke will play the best friend of the stuntman. Taylor-Johnson is playing the movie star while Hsu is his assistant. Blunt is cast as a prosthetic makeup artist that has a romantic past with the stuntman.

"Hobbs & Shaw" filmmaker David Leitch is directing the project, which Universal acquired as a package in an auction. The feature film is inspired by the classic 1980s series of the same name created by Glen A. Larson.

The film is an adaptation of the TV series The Fall Guy, which ran for five seasons between 1981 and 1986; it starred Lee Majors, fresh off The Six Million Dollar Man, as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who moonlit as a bounty hunter.

Winston Duke also starred with Lupita Nyong’o in Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror thriller Us, and appeared opposite Mark Walhberg in Netflix’s Spenser Confidential.

Production for the film is set to begin in Australia this fall with a theatrical release date set for March 1, 2024.

Source: Press Release