Russo Brothers’ Plans To Form A James Bond Level Film Franchise With The Grey Man

Avengers writer-director duo — Russo brothers are all set to bring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans together for their new Netflix film The Gray Man. According to Deadline, the new project is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Mark Greaney, comes with a budget of a whopping USD 200 million. Helmed by Joe and Anthony Russo will be bankrolled by their new content company AGBO. With The Gray Man, the director duo intends to create a new James Bond-level film franchise. “The idea is to create a franchise and build out a whole universe. We have all committed to the first movie and that’s got to be great to get us to the second movie. We think Netflix is the perfect place for this film,” Joe told Deadline. “These are master assassins, and Gosling’s character gets burned by the CIA and Evans’ character has to hunt him down,” he added.