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Ryan Gosling Is A Funny Guy, I Swear

by Rachel Semigran

April 16, 2015

One of the most meme-able men of the Internet (and one of the biggest stars in Hollywood), Ryan Gosling might co-star in the upcoming sequel to Blade Runner , according to Variety. The film, which goes by the title Prisoners is a follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic starring Harrison Ford, who will return to helm the sequel. In the original Blade Runner, which is based off of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a renegade by the name of Rick Deckard saves the dystopian future by destroying one human replicant at a time. Prisoners will take place years after the original, which was set in Los Angeles in 2019, where there was a lot more existentialism and much less Katy Perry.

Along with Prisoners, Gosling has oodles of upcoming projects. Up next he stars with Russell Crowe in The Nice Guys, a crime drama about the suicide of a famous porn star in the 1970s. Following that will be The Big Short with Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell, and Christian Bale. That film is about the billionaires who profited from a global economic crash. Rounding out Gosling's slew of super-serious roles is Weightless, a film about the passionate and obsessive love triangles... which also happen to include Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, and Bale. Hot. Damn.

As much as I love seeing Gosling in pretty much anything, all of his upcoming roles and everything in recent years has been majorly heavy. It's sort of a shame considering the fact that Gosling is actually a talented comedic actor. Here's why we need a little more light-hearted Gosling in our lives: