Last year, the summer movie season kicked off with David Leitch’s “The Fall Guy,” starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, but it sadly underperformed, earning $181M against a $150M budget.
Many forget that when ‘Fall Guy’ was released, Gosling and Leitch were openly ambitious about turning it into a franchise, with Gosling even confirming that a sequel script had already been written and was ready to go.
We love these characters so much that we wanted to know, just for ourselves, what happens to Colt and Jody after the movie ends?What’s the next phase for them? And we know exactly what it is. The sequel sort of wrote itself.
Unfortunately, more than a year later, the idea of a ‘Fall Guy’ sequel actually being greenlit feels completely unrealistic—and Leitch is well aware of it.
Speaking to THR, the filmmaker discussed ‘Fall Guy’ and its potential sequel, calling it a “dream” to get the next installment made while acknowledging that the film underperformed at the box office:
Ryan and us had early conversations and some treatments of where this is going. We had some really fun ideas. So who knows, maybe down the line it becomes one of those IPs that people want to revisit because it has such a following past theatrical. That would be a dream, but if it doesn’t, there’s a lot of other stories to tell.
As Leitch puts it, anything is possible, but whether we get a sequel will ultimately be decided by the audience—and that will depend on the signs of life the film shows on streaming.
Many viewers enjoyed the film — its ‘A-’ CinemaScore was a promising sign, and reviews weren’t bad either, with an 81% on Rotten Tomatoes — but it takes more than solid scores to declare a movie a hit, let alone greenlight a sequel.