Ryan Gosling thinks he knows why a dand his best movie never had a sequel, and that’s rather surprising.
Coming soon to the poster of The Fall Guy by David Leitch, which, according to the first opinions, should make noise in theaters, Ryan Gosling is a subscriber to success. But that wasn’t always the case. Today, if the actor is so popular that he stole the show from Margot Robbie in barbie with a secondary role (but not that secondary), it wasn’t always the marketing pitch it is today.
From time to time, the paths to success are impenetrable, even incomprehensible, and if it is difficult to grasp all the parameters of the failure of a project, Ryan Gosling has an idea concerning the cause of the failure of one of his movies. The same year when the actor’s name was on everyone’s lips for his performance in Lala Land, Ryan Gosling flopped alongside Russell Crowe in The Nice Guysa crime comedy directed by Shane Black and released in theaters in 2016.
Failure the Nice Guys
On promotional tour for The Fall Guy, the actor returned to one of the reasons which, according to him, caused Shane Black’s feature film to wallow. And the culprit designated by the actor is unexpected to say the least. For Gosling, this is the movie angry Birds which dashed any hope of a potential sequel to The Nice Guys.
“I think the possibility of a sequel is validated by a film’s opening weekend performance, and we found ourselves that weekend facing angry Birds, […] And angry Birds simply destroyed us. And angry Birds got a sequel.”
When you fail because of‘angry Birds
And the actor is not really wrong. angry Birds made a very good startaccumulating 39 million dollars in revenue on American soil for its first weekend compared to only 11 for The Nice Guys. And the animated film will also end its run with a nice 352 million dollars at the box office… far from the 63 million revenues of Shane Black’s film. And the rest of the competition was not likely to help matters: apart from angry Birdswe found on the poster Our worst neighbors 2 And Captain America: Civil War released three weeks ago.
The Nice Guys never recovered from this poor launch, its score painfully exceeding its budget of 50 million. The resounding failure of the film, although appreciated by critics, logically erased any hope of one day seeing the birth of a sequel to the feature film. This failure, however, did not discourage Gosling from participating in new action comediesgiven that the actor is at the top of the bill The Fall Guyin theaters May 1.
