Warning: SPOILERS for The Gray Man
Several factors will determine whether Netflix will greenlight The Gray Man 2. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and adapted from the novels by Mark Greaney, The Gray Man is an international secret agent action-thriller starring Ryan Gosling as Sierra Six, the titular hero. Six is hunted by sociopathic killer Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) and his own agency after he uncoverers damning evidence of deep-seated corruption in the CIA. The Gray Man also stars Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, Julia Butters, Jessica Henwick, and Regé-Jean Page.
The Gray Man aims to be a successor to the James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Tom Clancy geopolitical spy movie, but it ramps up the action set pieces to another level.The Gray Man introduces a reluctant but extremely capable action hero in Sierra Six, who is opposed by a vast conspiracy within the CIA centered around its chief, Denny Carmichael (Page), and his partner, Suzanne Brewer (Henwick). With Hansen deployed to kill Six and bring back an amulet called «the Asset,» he acquired that contains the evidence to bring Carmichael's regime down, Six also has to protect Claire (Butters), the young niece of his mentor, Donald Fitzroy (Thornton). The Gray Man's blistering action ignites Bangkok, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Croatia, and Washington, D.C. as Six battles his myriad enemies in order to stay alive.
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The Gray Man is obviously poised to set up the next major action movie franchise at Netflix. The Russo Brothers and their screenwriting partners, Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, have several novels penned by Mark Greaney to adapt, and the universe of lies, deceit and violence The Gray Man establishes
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