The Gray Man: On the red carpet with Ryan Gosling and screenwriter Christopher Markus

Netflix’s The Gray Man is almost everything you’d expect from a Russo Brothers production, bar superhuman heroics. An outrageous, bombastic, highly charged piece of entertainment that finds a stellar cast including Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas following each other across the world, fighting epic battles and leaving entire cities devastated in their wake. 

A formulaic but assertively loud thriller, the film follows Gosling’s Sierra Six, a former inmate recruited by the CIA while in prison to perform the agency’s dirty and dubious assassinations. One mission, however, leads Six to discover a dark truth about his employer (Regé-Jean Page), which makes him the target of an international manhunt. The hiring of Evans’s mercenary assassin, Lloyd Hansen, then sets in motion the chain of events that constitutes the bulk of the plot. 

The Upcoming had the good fortune to be invited to the London premiere at the BFI Southbank, and gain an insight into the inner workings of the film from its cast and crew.

Gosling spoke to us about preparing for his first leading action role, which included working with the real “Gray Man”. He also spoke about fulfilling his lifelong ambition of making a film in the action genre.

We also spoke to screenwriter, Christopher Markus, about the experience of writing a film outside the constraints of the MCU for the first time since 2013’s Pain and Gain.

Catch more highlights from the red carpet below.

Matthew McMillan

The Gray Man is released in cinemas on 15^th July 2022. Read our review of The Gray Man here.

Watch the trailer for The Gray Man here: