Even though Ryan Gosling didn’t come property with Oscar gold this yr, the actor is on the promotional trail for The Slide Man, opening in theaters this weekend. Even though you can find even now no greenlight for a Barbie sequel–or if a single will at any time even materialize–1 sequel lovers have been clamoring for has been for The Pleasant Men, the 2016 black comedy starring him and Russell Crowe as non-public eyes in the late 1970s.

While talking to ComicBook about The Fall Guy, Gosling argued that a sequel to The Wonderful Men may well not happen, specifically immediately after The Angry Birds Film dominated the box office weekend.

“So considerably of a sequel, I consider, is decided by the opening weekend of a motion picture, and we opened up versus Indignant Birds,” Gosling defined. “So Offended Birds just…just ruined us. Offended Birds acquired a sequel.” The Great Men eventually acquired just $62 million off of a $50 million funds. The Offended Birds Film by comparison would go on to get paid around $350 million.

Given that the preliminary launch, director Shane Black uncovered that experienced ideas to spin off the basic principle into a tv exhibit, but that it didn’t translate nicely in that format.

“We experimented with it as a Television demonstrate,” Black shared with Slash Film back in 2022. “We caught the figures, but the plot was totally distinct. It was set in current day, and no 1 wanted to get it. We had to glance in other places. [It] wouldn’t have been any excellent [as a TV series]. Tonally, Tv tends to homogenize…so if you have obtained anything which is a minor odd or twisted, chances are the [network executives are] likely to take it and just get started…[sanding] off the edges.”