By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Joe Russo says he and his directing partner-brother Anthony Russo are massive followers of Dhanush, who performs “one of the top assassins of the world” of their upcoming Netflix movie “The Gray Man”, a job they particularly wrote for the Indian actor.
The one half of the director duo, finest recognized for Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame”, mentioned if “The Gray Man” receives viewers’s love, there’s a chance that the actor will function within the movies of the potential franchise.
“Anthony and I are big Dhanush’s fans. We wrote this role specifically for him. He’s a sort of classic bada** character, who shows up to combat the hero and complicate the film. He’s a fun character. He’s unique.”
“Dhanush has a great presence on camera and the character is almost mystical in a way. The intention is if audiences like this film, we expand out the storytelling from here, and this is a fascinating character to move forward in that world,” Joe Russo mentioned on Tuesday night time in a Twitter area session hours after the streamer dropped the trailer of “The Gray Man”.
While the main points of the function performed by Dhanush are but to be disclosed by the makers, as per the brand new poster shared by Netflix on Monday, the National Award winner’s character is described as a “lethal force”.
Joe Russo mentioned Dhanush performs “one of the top assassins of the world” who is shipped after the titular ‘Gray Man’, performed by Ryan Gosling within the film. “He’s got two incredible fights in the film,” he added.
According to the streamer, The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Gosling), aka, Sierra Six, who’s plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy, performed by Billy Bob Thornton.
Gentry was as soon as a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned service provider of dying. But now the tables have turned and Six is the goal, hunted throughout the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort on the CIA, who will cease at nothing to take him out.
Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his again. He’ll want it,” reads the film’s official synopsis. Based on the novel “The Gray Man” by Mark Greaney, the screenplay is by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
Joe Russo additionally mentioned whereas the movie was a whole story as a standalone, there have been quite a lot of components that talk to potentialities about the place characters can go additional. “With our partners, Chris Markus and Stephen Mcfeely, we are starting to conceive a large part of what we do as universes and ‘The Gray Man’ is definitely an example of that.”
The movie additionally stars Regé-Jean Page, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Alfre Woodard, Julia Butters, Eme Ikwuakor, and Scott Haze. It will premiere on Netflix on July 22.
