Ryan Gosling hasn’t appeared in a movie since 2007’s “Lars and the Real Girl.”
What has this excellent 28-year-old actor — who was nominated for a Oscar Best Actor at the age of 25 for 2006’s “Half Nelson” — been doing all this time?
Mostly concentrating on his music career with his band, Dead Man’s Bones, a sort of Halloween-y indie-rock band that often features children’s choirs and inventive songwriting (their just-released self titled October 2009 debut album is quite good).
He has shot two features since ’07. The long-delayed Weinstein Company film, “All Good Things” co-starring Kirsten Dunst that at this point is not coming out until 2010, and his most recent, “Blue Valentine,”co-starring Michelle Williams charting the evolution and difficulties of a contemporary married couple.
The third feature-length film by Derek Cianfrance (his 1998 debut, “Brother Tied” was heralded at Sundance that year and he’s done several musical portraits docs of people like, Mos Def and Run DMC and Jam Master Jay), the picture is essentially about a couple in the midst of a break-up coming up on their ten year wedding anniversary. As their relationship crumbles, the story cross-cuts between time periods as they recall their better days (at some point in the picture he’s featured with a badly bruised eye and nose).
Suffice to say anything with these two excellent actors intrigues us, so the two of them together (both really young heavyweights in their field) is doubly appealing.
Screen Daily gives us a small update. “The film is in post and scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2010,” which basically starts in April, so we’re looking at a Spring release and since this films sounds like an indie and tentpoles start to pop up in May (like “Iron Man II”) or guess is April is a pretty good bet.
Whatever happened to Craig Gillespie’s “The Dallas Buyer’s Club” about a man in the 1980s who is diagnosed with HIV and starts toying around with underground drugs not approved for use in the U.S. at the time? Gillespie directed “Lars & The Real Girl,” and Gosling was supposed to star in that one too, but it seems like that one hasn’t found it’s funding yet as it was announced over two years ago. It’s definitely another intriguing one though and we’d love that one to happen.
Either way, it seems the Ryan Gosling drought on screen will end in about roughly six months. Cianfrance’s second film, “Metalhead,” about a heavy metal drummer who blows his eardrums out and must learn to adapt to a world of silence has yet to be released, but it sounds pretty great.
