Chris Evans' villainous role in Netflix's 'The Gray Man' teased by Russo Brothers

Russo Brors are teasing Chris Evans’ villain role in ir upcoming big-budget spy thriller for Netflix titled  Gray Man. Talk of  Russo Brors apting Mark Greaney's 2009 vel of same name began all way back in 2014 when Russos' were fresh off making Captain America: Winter Soldier and were still relatively unkwn directors. For ir highly anticipated next project,  Gray Man, Anthony and Joe Russo will be returning to Netflix, who is reportedly putting up $200 million to fund spy thriller, making it streaming service’s most expensive feature film in its history. 

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Chris Evans character teased by Gray Man directors

Recently on  Lights Camera Barstool podcast, Russo Brors talked briefly about ir upcoming film, and how it is a “modern interpretation of a spy thriller” inspired by  Bond franchise. y also touted  Gray Man as “a big pop culture film infused with modern matics and politics.” Joe Russo also spoke specifically about role Chris Evans will play as a villain. "He’s a really unique character, and this is Evans as a villain so it’s a really interesting character and I think he’s going to get to flex quite a bit in this role," said Joe Russo. 

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Gray Man cast also includes Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas, with Gosling playing le role, Court Gentry, a former CIA operative turned assassin. Gray Man plot will centre around conflict between Gentry and Evan's villain, Lloyd Hansen, with Hansen being Gentry's former CIA colleague.  This conflict is set to play out on a massive global scale. Production was originally set to begin in 2020, but it was delayed due to COVID-19 and filming is w aiming to commence in March 2021. Netflix is reportedly putting up $200 million to fund project, making it streamer's biggest budgeted feature film to date, surpassing Martin Scorsese's 2019 film  Irishman ($169 million).

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More trivia about  Russo Brors films

Director duo Anthony and Joe Russo are best kwn for directing four films in Marvel Cinematic Universe:  Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Avengers: Endgame grossed over $2.798 billion worldwide, becoming  highest-grossing film of all time (unjusted for inflation), breaking 10-year-old record of James Cameron's Avatar (2009) with $2.790 billion. brors have also worked as directors and/or producers on comedy series Arrested Development (2003–2005), Community (2009–2014), and Happy Endings (2011–2012). y won a Primetime Emmy Award for Arrested Development. ir or film credits include writing and producing Chris Hemsworth action thriller Extraction (2020) and directing and producing Tom Holland's upcoming film Cherry, scheduled to release on Apple TV+ on March 12, 2021.

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