Dhanush has joined the cast of the Russo brothers’ upcoming spy film, The Gray Man, which is reportedly the most expensive Netflix original ever produced. Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas will play the lead roles. Along with Dhanush, Netflix announced that Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, and Julia Butters had also joined the cast. Netflix film The Gray Man is based on Mark Greaney’s 2009 novel of the same name. In the film, Gentry (Gosling) is hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former cohort at the CIA.
This is going to be the first project that will feature the Gray Man, freelance assassin, and former CIA operative Court Gentry. Taking to Twitter, Netflix announced about the cast and wrote, "THE GRAY MAN cast just got even better. Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Dhanush, and Julia Butters will join Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas in the upcoming action thriller from directors Anthony and Joe Russo."Earlier this year, Dhanush was seen in the Extraction, the film starred Chris Hemsworth and many other Indian stars including Randeep Hooda, Priyanshu Painyuli, Rudraksh Jaiswal, and Pankaj Tripathi. It is said that the film is going to have a sequel. Meanwhile, on the work front, Dhanush is also set to make his Bollywood return with ‘Atrangi Re’, co-starring with Sara Ali Khan and Akshay Kumar.