The Daniels, the Oscar-winning filmmaking duo behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, have cast Ryan Gosling to lead their next sci-fi action comedy.

The Universal Pictures project, which is still untitled, has a release date of November 19th, 2027, and is reportedly looking to begin filming this summer. The film marks Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s first follow-up to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which swept the Academy Awards and brought home Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.

Per Universal, plot details remain under wraps for the Daniels’ new film, though in an interview at SXSW, Kwan called it a “fun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential. All those things that you would hope that one of our movies would be.” He added the film will meet the moment of a “complex” world. “One of the reasons why it’s taking so long is because what we’re feeling and what we’re hearing from the world is very complex and really nuanced, and there’s so much paradox. To kind of reconcile all those things and put them into one movie, it takes time,” he said.

Kwan, Scheinert and Jonathan Wang are producing through their Playgrounds banner. Universal’s Executive VP of Production Development, Sara Scott, and Director of Production Development, Jacqueline Garell, are overseeing the project.

The news also comes as Universal’s Focus Features is nearing the release of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, which Kwan and Wang produced.

Ryan Gosling can currently be seen in Project Hail Mary.

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