Ryan Gosling had been circling the role this past spring but when schedules could not meet and he had moved on from the film, Universal went to another heavy-hitting A-lister to star in the pic.
Damon is coming off a busy 2025 that included back-to-back shoots of the Netflix action pic The Rip and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. After a grueling six-month shoot on The Odyssey, sources say Damon was in no rush in finding his next thing and instead planned to rest and spend time with family. In recent weeks, however, he began looking at scripts for projects that would follow The Odyssey‘s massive promotional campaign, and the Daniels‘ film stood.
Following a meeting with the duo, Damon gave the thumbs up. The plan would be to shoot the film later this summer in Los Angeles after Damon is done promoting Odyssey, which bows July 18.
