Dhanush joins Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in Russo Brothers’ The Gray Man

Tamil star Dhanush has just landed the biggest role of his acting career. He will be starring alongside the likes of Hollywood stars Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in the Russo Brothers directorial ‘The Gray Man’. The Netflix original is planned to be made on a massive $200 million budget. It is thereby the the most expensive Netflix film ever.

Netflix Film broke the big news by tweeting,

THE GRAY MAN cast just got even better.

Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Dhanush, and Julia Butters will join Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas in the upcoming action thriller from directors Anthony and Joe Russo.

‘The Gray Man’ is an action thriller based on a 2009 novel of the same name, penned by author Mark Greaney. The story revolves around two killers – a freelance assassin Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former associate of Gentry at the CIA and now on a worldwide hunt for him, and their duel. ‘Avengers’ scenarists Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely are also involved in this project.

‘The Gray Man’ marks Dhanush’s second international project after the English-language French adventure comedy film ‘The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir’.