{"id":438406,"date":"2026-05-21T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438406\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:39:09","slug":"the-daniels-next-movie-has-a-new-star-and-some-first-plot-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438406\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daniels’ Next Movie Has a New Star and Some First Plot Hints"},"content":{"rendered":"

For about five minutes, Ryan Gosling was going to star<\/a> in the next big sci-fi movie<\/a> from Oscar-winning directors the Daniels<\/a>. But the Project Hail Mary and Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a> star, who sometimes can seem like the living embodiment of Everything Everywhere All at Once, soon dropped out. It didn\u2019t take long to find a replacement: Matt Damon\u2014no stranger to<\/a> sci-fi himself<\/a>\u2014is now aboard. Even more excitingly, we have our first plot details with this news.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> writes that the as-yet untitled film is locked in to shoot this summer in Los Angeles. That\u2019s actually a big reason why Gosling and the Daniels parted ways. The actor requested script revisions, and there just wasn\u2019t enough time in the tight schedule to accommodate them.<\/p>\n

The movie\u2019s plot revolves around \u201cglobal warming, time travel, as well as a possible superhero angle. And there are two timelines, one set in the 1980s and one set in the present day. The protagonists of the story are teens \u2026 at least in the 1980s-set timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s a twist: the role that Gosling was to play, which has since gone to Damon, isn\u2019t the lead, it\u2019s the father of one of the teens.<\/p>\n

THR explains that it\u2019s a \u201csubstantial\u201d role but still more of a supporting part, and \u201cGosling, after initially agreeing, thought it should be larger and asked for script changes, according to sources,\u201d the trade wrote. \u201c[The] Daniels did not necessarily disagree, but there was a larger issue. The project [\u2026] has to start production by the end of summer or early fall because it has received a California tax credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Damon locked in and production starting so soon, we\u2019ll no doubt be learning more about this one soon\u2014including who will play those 1980s teens.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For about five minutes, Ryan Gosling was going to star in the next big sci-fi movie from Oscar-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,15660,111,139,69,185422],"class_list":["post-438406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}