THE ACTOR

directed by Duke Johnson

written by Duke Johnson & Stephen Coney

based on “Memory” by Donald E. Westlake

Gosling will play New York actor Paul Cole, who is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a mysterious small town, Paul struggles to get back home, piece together and reclaim the life and identity he’s lost.

deadline.com/2021/02/ryan-gosling-the-actor-duke-johnson-director-donald-e-westlake-novel-european-film-market-1234699810

Sounds cool, let's see how it goes

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Sounds Kaufmanesque. Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman both directed “Anomalisa” so I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess.

Johnson’s Anomalisa collaborator Charlie Kaufman has newly boarded as executive producer.

You were right!

Sounds hard as f***, I wonder how heavy kaufman's influence will be

Not really much of an update

This for the same film?

It’s such a small part of the article it could be anything this all they say

Asked what he’s got cooking next, Kaufman said, “I don’t have anything. I wrote a screenplay that Ryan Gosling might do, might act in, and we’re going to go out with it at some point, I guess, and see if we can get it set up. And I’m working on a second novel, and I’m fretting. And that’s my schedule.”

It's just fallout new Vegas without the nuclear war