Chris Evans’ mustache is out to kill Ryan Gosling in this trailer for the Russo brothers’ Gray Man
Netflix's otherwise generic-looking action movie sure has some good famous people
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Netflix has released a full trailer for upcoming action movie The Gray Man, and it wisely plays right into its strengths. No, we’re not talking about high-octane action and cool cloak-and-dagger spy conspiracies and funny quips, we’re talking about the big and exciting names that Netflix can flash on the screen. Like, the movie is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the brothers behind Avengers: Endgame, so this trailer could just say that. But no, it lists all of their Marvel credits. Then, you spend two minutes watching Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans trying to kill each other, with some pop-ups from Ana de Armas and Billy Bob Thornton, and then the trailer pulls out the INTENSE MUSIC AS WE LIST EVERY FAMOUS PERSON IN THE MOVIE trick.
Now, none of this is a complaint, because god damn that’s a good list of names and those Russo brothers Marvel movies are the best ones, we just feel like pointing out that “this is the plot” doesn’t need to be the focal point of every movie trailer. Sometimes you can just say “the directors made some stuff you probably like and also we have Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans and Ana de Armas and Billy Bob Thornton.” This trailer could’ve been an email, and it would’ve been just as exciting.
But if you must know the plot, Ryan Gosling is some kind of “gray man” spy guy and Chris Evans is some kind of assassin guy who is out to kill him. Ana de Armas, reunited with Gosling after Blade Runner 2049 and Evans after Knives Out, is… some other person involved in the spy business. So are Regé-Jean Page and Billy Bob Thornton and Alfre Woodard. Jessica Henwick and Wagner Moura and Julia Butters and Dhanush are all also there, and they… probably have something to do with the spy business. Look, we don’t really know what’s happening in the plot.
What we do know is that this very expensive movie will be on Netflix on July 22.
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That photo of Chris Evans barely fitting into that fun shirt makes me want to just hop aboard.To be honest, it’s about that time of year for a generic, expensive but halfway decent action flick, so. I have not had good luck paying to see movies I had hopes for lately, so it’ll be nice to just sit at home and try this one, see how that works out for me.
The Gray Man
Yeah, is this the latest from the Freaky Spaghetti or something?
Too bad the “Gray Man” is actually Gosling’s character. e.g. your pic needs a goatee not a mustache.Boo.
Ryan Gosling… now there’s a name I haven’t heard in years.
yeah hes been on some vacation, since lala land or blade runner 2049, i think?
I think my uncle knew him. He said he’s dead.
It’s a movie about cutting the shipping labels off of all the packages you throw away, so that your neighbors can’t dig through your trash and find out what kind of survival gear you’re ordering.
My god this is the only possible outcome given the mustache and haircut.
So the ‘stash is not just a swipe/joke at Henry Cavill? Kind of like the Freddy Kreuger glove in Evil Dead 2?
I got Netflix on the phone. They’re willing to can a bunch of hipster cartoons to make room for this.
It’s a movie about burying your poop with a trowel when the thin veneer of society is stripped away
I mean if society is crumbling, why bury it at all?
Why don’t you command the same respect as your father?
Came down here for Masterclass references, left satisfied.The veneer of society has never been thinner.
There’s like a super fine line between pervert and non-pervert when it comes to having a mustache, and it’s impossible to predict.Like how many of yall have shaved and left the mustache just to see? Like everyone, right? You do it, look at yourself, and then realize Chris Hansen is gonna walk through the door if you leave it, so you shave it off. Wild stuff.
There is no line. ITS ALWAYS WRONG. Unless its a period piece and the guy’s a cowboy.
Our office had a holiday season mustache-growing contest a few years ago. We had everything from Boston cop to uncomfortably close to Hitler. At our next staff meeting we were cracking jokes about how everyone better shave before CPS shows up at our office, etc., before remembering that one of the senior guys in the firm (and in the room) still rocked a mustache full time. Uncomfortable silence followed. It was great.
Wow, Michael Jordan works at your office?
I said “close,” not “I dare you to tell me I have a Hitler ‘stache.”
“Just ‘cause Hitler was a fuck-up, why should I change my look?!”
The Michael Bolton defense.
“No-talent assclown” is a phrase that, I suppose, applies to Hitler.
I just look like I root for the Bears. So… sad pervert.
I think race plays a part. Basically it can work for anyone who isn’t white.Sadly I can’t grow a proper mustache (too much native blood in me I guess) even though basically all my male relatives have them, so I’ve been unable to test out how it’s look.
So now we gotta deal with Barsanti on weekday mornings? Great.
Battle of the Handsomes
Unabashedly #teamryan
and Ana.
*licks lips*
There was a nice few decades where mustaches WERENT A THING ANYMORE. I hate, absolutely fucking despise, that theyve been brought back. Whoever re-started that shit should be shot.
Netflix’s … generic-looking action movieRedundant.
looks pretty cool, wish it was rated R though
With spies like these who needs terrorists.
You had me at “mustache”, but his shirt looks like a soccer goal.
And Ana de Armas, well, she can do whatever she wants around these parts as long as she’s here.
Baby Goose’s first movie in 4 years is THIS thing? Generic Netflix movie is right, like Extraction a while back with Thor. I know I saw it but I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about it now.
A lot of people are focusing on Chris Evans’ mustache… But, let’s not overlook that haircut. Now, that’s commitment to a role!
when I first saw the picture of Chris Evans and that mustache I misread the movie title as “Gay Man” LOL
The main problem here is that most of the world spell it “Grey” so they’re not gonna know what the hell anybody is talking about.
So, I love The Gray Man books. I’m actually reading one right now. I have been psyched for this movie since it was announced. Chris Evans is a great choice for the villain. That said, I have a problem with Gosling’s casting. He’s called The Gray Man because he is physically average and unremarkable in every way, so no one ever remembers his face and he can slip in and out of situations, but he’s also an elite killer. Can anyone HONESTLY say Ryan Gosling is physically unremarkable in ANY way? I saw him on the street in New York once walking away from me and I knew it was him from behind just based on his triceps and the shape of his head. It’s ultimately probably meaningless to the story, just a sticking point for me.
Hollywood exec: Can we rename it “The Handsome Man”?
Hang on, that’s the same logic used to name a character “The Grey Man” in the Hardy Boys novels. I call bullshit on the creator of this franchise!
Honestly yeah, kind of. I never got Goslings status as one of the godly looking male celebs. I get it for like Brad Pitt. Gosling is more meh, and also not physically imposing in a way that stands out.
Good looking people are everywhere and they are, largely, forgettable.The fact that you remember Ryan Gosling (and his actually unremarkable triceps) has more to do with him being Ryan Gosling, Movie Star, than him being particularly remarkable in ANY way.
As a blonde white guy with blue eyes, I can say with absolute certainty that I wouldn’t really notice much since I share a lot of similarities. Nothing would stand out about him to me.
They should have got Bill Hader to play the role.
Okay. Is this the Third Era of Evans?The first era was the Lovable Bad Boy era. The teen movies, Fantastic Four, all that.The second era was Boy Scout Era. Captain America, Snowpiercer, stuff like that.Then, friggin’ Knives Out. I would call this era the Fascinating Bastard Era, if a line is to be drawn between these two movies. God, I hope he keeps transforming. He is always pretty friggin’ good…
Given that weird sex dungeon stuff from celebrity gossip corners, I think he’s always been a lil freak and is just now starting to get the right kind of roles. Like How Chris Hemsworth was always supposed to be a comedic actor but was so fuckin handsome that he was always a jacked action guy/soap opera blank
There’s a rich English DJ called Chris Evans who is supposedly into BDSM and has a ‘dungeon’. And guess what, that’s not the Chris Evans in this movie. I’m so cringed out for you. How do you go through life like this?
I really wish it was that Chris Evans though. Well, ok, maybe not.Great username… why do men have nipples?
Proudly, most likely, and probably more than a little successful. Keep in mind the timeline we’re in.
How I go through life like…this? By getting two names mixed up because that’s how it was reported in the thing I read? I dunno, by…thinking about it less than 1% of 1% of 1% of my time and having a life fuller than one piece of celebrity gossip I saw like two years ago? What a weird thing to say.
If you told me that these Netflix action movies were just deepfaked via some kind of elaborate AI that produced the visuals and script, I wouldn’t bat an eye. At least this seems to have a few less quips than Red Notice or whatever the fuck it was called.
You know what would be a truly entertaining twist? These dudes just started making the fuck out.
My brain watching the trailer: “Netflix movie about spies or assassins or something with big name cast? So it’s like Red Notice with better actors?”. And the (unfair) comparison to Red Notice immediately soured me on this.
Whew!This piece just managed to squeeze in the Look, we’ll concede this one point phrasing that’s become requisite in all articles on this site since January 1, 2022.
I’m torn… the premise is something that would usually cause me to yawn and avoid, but the cast and crew are compelling. Although I thought that way before the Russo’s movie Cherry, and that was not good.I hope the “beloved superhero actor grows a mustache and becomes villainous” trend continues. Chris Evans, Henry Cavill in M:I, Sebastian Stan in I, Tonya… I’d like to see Paul Rudd do it next. We won’t mention Mute.
Looks pretty good, and I love Chris Evans as a villain. He’s got a manic edge under the surface that is rarely used, so I’m into this.
He keeps adding an “r” in the title…This lack of editing on AV Club is out of control
He was gray in both appearance and demeanor
I read Gay Man and the moustache had me living for Daddy Evans, now I am disappointed.
You would think Ryan Gosling would have learned something from the Drive lawsuit but here he is again in another movie with a misleading title. I don’t see a single gray-colored man in this trailer.