Ryan Gosling Teams With EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Directors on Sci-Fi Action Comedy at Universal
Coming off one of the biggest weekends of his career with Project Hail May, Ryan Gosling obviously has no interest in slowing down and wants to keep the momentum going.
Deadline reports that Gosling is set to star in an untitled event film at Universal Pictures, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the Oscar-winning duo better known as The Daniels.
The project is still being kept close to the chest, but production is scheduled to begin this summer in Los Angeles, with a release date already locked in for November 19, 2027.
The timing couldn't feel more right. Gosling just delivered the biggest opening of his career with Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary, which pulled in $141 million globally in its opening weekend, including $80 million domestically. As of this week, the film has crossed $100 million in the U.S. alone, breaking records along the way, including the best non-sequel opening for a March release.
The reviews have been just as strong as the numbers, with Hail Mary now sitting as the highest-rated film of Gosling's career on Rotten Tomatoes. Awards attention seems likely to follow.
And yet, before that film even had time to cool off, his next move was already being made.
For The Daniels, this project has been a long time in the works. The pair swept the 2022 Oscars with Everything Everywhere All at Once, then largely stepped back from the spotlight.
A directing stint on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and some producing credits filled the gap, but their follow-up feature remained a mystery. That mystery was quietly set up at Universal in 2024, and now it's beginning to take shape.
Kwan, Scheinert, and producer Jonathan Wang will produce under their Playgrounds banner through an overall deal with Universal. Playgrounds also recently produced The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist for Focus Features, which hits theaters March 27, 2026.
On the studio side, Sara Scott, Exec VP of Production Development, and Jacqueline Garell, Director of Production Development, will oversee the film.
As for what the movie actually is, Kwan offered a description that should excite anyone who loved what the duo pulled off the last time.
"It's going to be fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential," he said in an interview with Collider, adding that they want to "try doing what we've always done: listen very deeply to what is happening in the world and try to internalize that and make something really fun and entertaining."
That instinct to absorb the cultural moment and channel it into something emotionally resonant is exactly what made Everything Everywhere such a phenomenon. Rather than chasing a follow-up formula, The Daniels are again doing the slower, stranger work of trying to "reconcile all those [complex and really nuanced] things and put them into one movie."
The ambitions for the theatrical experience are equally significant. Kwan has expressed a desire to shoot much of the film with IMAX in mind, with a clear goal to "bring people together and give them a big event. It's a big action movie, which we're really excited about."
Gosling, meanwhile, keeps building a slate that seems almost tailor-made for this era of cinema. Following Project Hail Mary, he's also lined up for Star Wars: Starfighter, set for May 28, 2027.
A year and eight months is a long wait without a title or a trailer or even a premise beyond "existential sci-fi action comedy with a big heart." But if Everything Everywhere All at Once taught audiences anything, it's that The Daniels earn the benefit of the doubt. Add Gosling to that equation, and the wait suddenly feels a lot more manageable.