Ryan Gosling drops out of the Daniels' follow-up to Oscar-winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Ryan Gosling drops out of the Daniels' follow-up to Oscar-winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Ryan ColemanFri, April 3, 2026 at 5:09 AM UTC
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Ryan Gosling in 2024; Michelle Yeoh in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Allyson Riggs/A24
They tried for a Hail Mary, but it looks like Ryan Gosling will not star in the Daniels’ next film.
The leading man in the No. 1 film in the country, Project Hail Mary, was set to appear in the big follow-up to directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Oscar-winning breakthrough, Everything Everywhere All at Once, per Deadline Hollywood. But he has had to drop out for scheduling reasons, Entertainment Weekly can confirm.
The untitled event film was ready to shoot in Los Angeles this summer, amid a worrying decline in productions rooted in the heart of Hollywood. But after getting a multimillion-dollar tax credit from the state of California under newly expanded guidelines, the production was unable to change its shoot dates, and Gosling’s schedule was unable to accommodate.
The Daniels posing with their Oscars at the Academy Awards in 2023Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Little is known about the Daniels’ follow-up to the bonkers family dramedy that became the golden child of the 2023 Oscars. The film picked up awards for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, both Best Supporting for Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, and more.
But Gosling certainly would have lent it star power that translates into serious commercial appeal. In just two weeks, Project Hail Mary, the space odyssey helmed by Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, became the highest grossing film of 2026 so far.
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What is known about the Daniels’ next film is that Kwan and Scheinert are on board to produce as well as direct through their Playgrounds production banner. Playgrounds exec Jonathan Wang, who produced EEAAO, the duo’s 2016 farce Swiss Army Man, as well as Schienert’s solo effort The Death of Dick Long will produce alongside the Daniels for Universal.
Playgrounds’ most recent project is The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell and produced by Kwan and Wang, the film released on March 27.
Ryan Gosling in 'Project Hail Mary'Credit: Amazon MGM Studios
It’s no wonder Gosling ran into scheduling issues when attempting to board the Daniels’ next big picture.
The Canadian A-lister is set to star in the crime comedy Tough Guys alongside Will Ferrell, marking a Barbie reunion. He’s also attached to star in Star Wars: Starfighter, a career-first foray into franchise tentpole filmmaking.
"It was [director Shawn Levy’s] enthusiasm and his vision and the script," Gosling explained about his Star Wars decision in February. Also cloaked in secrecy, Starfighter has been described as a "standalone" project set in a "period of time that we haven't seen explored yet" within the Star Wars universe.
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