Directors Joe and Anthony Russo tease their much-anticipated Netflix spy thriller as “a fight to the death.”
The Russo brothers love a story about a man on the run.
The result isThe Gray Man,a globe-trotting drama about a CIA operative who inadvertently triggers a manhunt.

Ryan Gosling in ‘The Gray Man’.Credit: Paul Abell/Netflix
(Evans is also rocking a very sinister mustache inThe Gray Man,just as hisLobby Herocharacter did.)
“It’s why you traditionally don’t get a Ryan Gosling versus Chris Evans movie.
They’re very complicated characters with competing agendas, and it’s a fight to the death.”

Chris Evans (and his mustache) as Lloyd Hansen in ‘The Gray Man’.Paul Abell/Netflix
Still, they’re careful not to plan too far beyond that July release.
“Then you’re free to worry about how you expand it beyond that.”
“It goes back to the Italian thing,” Anthony says, laughing.

Ana de Armas as Dani Miranda in ‘The Gray Man’.Netflix
“We like to eat.
We like to eatwell.”
“And we like pizza,” Joe adds.

Regé-Jean Page as Carmichael in ‘The Gray Man’.Paul Abell/Netflix
Ryan was just like, ‘You know what?
Today I’m having some of that damn pizza.’
And he did, and he wasveryhappy."

Ryan Gosling, behind the scenes of ‘The Gray Man’.