What a difference a week (and being trapped like a tiny, very charismatic bug betwixt one massive blockbuster and the next) can make: Just a few days after news broke that Project Hail Mary star Ryan Gosling was in talks to star in the next movie from Everything Everywhere All At Once directing team Daniels, news has broken (again!) that, actually, Gosling won’t be doing that at all.
This is per Deadline, which chalks Gosling’s decision not to formally sign on to the mystery project down to some pretty tight scheduling requirements. He’s just off a pretty aggressive (and successful) charm offensive for Project Hail Mary, which will soon roll into similarly grueling promo duties for his upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, which he spent the latter half of 2025 filming, ahead of a May 2027 release. That apparently leaves precious little time for whatever the hell Daniels have been cooking up since winning an Oscar in 2023 for teaching us all about the more heartfelt aspects of butt plugs, hot dog fingers, and cross-dimensional Ratatouille jokes.
There was apparently a very narrow window where Gosling could have gotten the movie in in between these various promotional duties, and some lack of schedule flexibility led to the confluence failing to come to pass. Of course, Daniels still have a fair amount of Hollywood heat left over from EEAAO, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find another leading man who’s capable of carrying an entire science-fiction epic on his shoulders with nothing but the power of flashbacks and some very solid puppet work at his disposal. Right?
No plot details about Daniels’ next film are currently known, although it’s expected to begin filming this summer; the movie is currently set up at Universal, and scheduled for a November 2027 release.
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