Hannah Waddingham, best known for her role in Ted Lasso, has joined the cast of Universal’s The Fall Guy. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress will yet again take up another role alongside Ryan Gosling (The Gray Man).

The talented Waddingham just had an appearance in the British comedy-drama Sex Education on Netflix. Sex Education chronicles the lives of the students, faculty, and parents of the fictional Moordale Secondary School as they struggle with various personal issues. She also joined the cast of the new animated version of Garfield and had an appearance in Hocus Pocus 2 for Disney Plus.

The Fall Guy is based on the Lee Majors TV series from the 1980s, but it has been reported that the upcoming adaptation will make a few changes. It will completely do away with the bounty-hunting element, making Ryan Gosling’s character solely a stuntman. Its plot will revolve around a past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself working again on a movie with the star (Taylor-Johnson), who he previously worked with but was replaced by. However, the movie’s star disappears.

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Hannah Waddingham has been cast as the film’s producer. Emily Blunt, commonly known for her role in A Quiet Place, has been cast as a prosthetic makeup artist that has a romantic history with Gosling’s character. Also joining the cast is Winston Duke, who also portrays M’Baku in the most recent MCU film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

The action-packed movie will be directed by David Leitch, who made his directing debut as a co-director in the 2014 action movie John Wick. Leitch has also recently directed Bullet Train for Sony Pictures.

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The Fall Guy Set to be Released in 2024

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In an interview with the Collider, Leitch described the movie as a remake of the classic series with a lot of drama drawn from both the bounty-hunting world and Hollywood.

“We’re definitely going to have a lot of fun playing with the movie, our movie experiences inside this movie,” he added.

Drew Pearce, who collaborated with Leitch on Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, will pen the film’s script. In addition to directing the film, Leitch also serves as the project’s producer alongside Kelly McCormick.

On March 1, 2024, The Fall Guy is scheduled for release in theaters worldwide. Fans of Hannah Waddingham will want to be on the lookout.