Marvel-lous: How the Russo brothers broke through into the big time
The gray man, which hits theaters this week before coming to Netflix on July 22, is the most expensive film in the streaming giant’s history. It’s the Russo brothers’ latest extravaganza, with a reported budget of $200m (£170m); A wham-bam thriller starring Ryan Gosling as James Bond-esque CIA assassin Agent Sierra Six and Chris Evans, best known as Captain America, as the supervillain trying to kill him. There are explosions, fights and chases, often involving the armed Ana De Armas, who keeps leaping from the shadows to save Gosling’s life. The new film follows on from the brothers’ four Marvel blockbusters, which have grossed billions of dollars at the box office. Adapted from Mark Greaney’s first gray man Roman, it is expected to spawn another franchise, possibly one that can compete with it The Avengersalbeit more in the action realm than in the world of superheroes.
It’s a measure of how far the Russians have come that they are now expected to make films on such a massive scale. That was not always so. When they started their career 25 years ago with an eccentric low-budget flick about three manic Italian brothers who run a hairpieces shop in Cleveland, Ohio, they saved and saved.
pieces (1997) was one of those unsung US indie films financed with credit cards that, as one critic wrote at the time, “would disappear or go straight to video” if it didn’t get limited screenings at obscure film festivals.
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