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THE FALL GUY Review: Honoring The Shadow Heroes Of Cinema

Hollywood has always been an ungrateful industry with the stuntmen craft. They’re the heroes on the shadow, barely mentioned or recognized and always long forgotten in their award ceremonies, including the oscars, that bunch of high trained one of a kind special people to endure pain and make movies look good, are the real badasses in the history of cinema. Loosely based in a popular 80´s television of the same name, “The Fall Guy” is an homage to that ungrateful craft of men and women who put their lives on the line in order to make movie stars look good to give the audience the best entertainment. Ryan Gosling gets into the skin of a top stuntman working on his ex-girlfriend directorial debut while getting caught in a conspiracy against him to save the ass of the star of the film. With a terrific soundtrack of epic rock themes and […]

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THE FALL GUY: Classic ABC Series Makes The Jump To The Big Screen, David Leitch And Ryan Gosling Attached

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch is still plotting Bullet Train for Sony, but thanks to Universal, the 87Eleven stunt multi-hyphenate who’s spent since 2014 leaving an impression in the director’s chair will soon bring to life a feature adaptation based on the 1981 ABC series, The Fall Guy. Deadline’s Justin Kroll was the first to break the news, while THR has more insider info on the project’s title; The latter cites a $125 million dollar bid for the project in a heated auction for Universal against MGM, Lionsgate and Sony, with no streamers involved, as a theatrical release was part of the package. Glen A. Larson created the hit series which lasted five years, casting Lee Majors in the role of Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who plied his trade both for the screen, and for his side hustle as a bounty hunter with the help of his cousin and […]

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