Hot off the heels of last year's, Barbenheimer, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt join forces in David Leitch's new action romp, The Fall Guy. The story is taken from the 1980s TV show of the same name, and it sees Gosling and Blunt star as Colt and Jody, a stuntman and camera operator whose fling comes to an end, after Colt suffers a bad injury and exits the movie industry. They re-team on Jody's directing debut, and it soon becomes clear that Colt is there to take the fall for a particular crime involving the lead star, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor Johnson).

The Fall Guy hit theaters on May 3, and looks set to kick-start the Hollywood blockbuster season, with fans and critics already raving about the high-octane action scenes and romantic comedy elements. It also stars Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Winston Duke and Ben Knight.

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What is The Fall Guy about?

The Fall Guy is the story of Colt Seavers (Gosling), a lead stuntman in the movies who consistently doubles for the huge movie star, Tom Ryder (Taylor-Johnson), where he begins a relationship with camera operator Jody (Emily Blunt), who is working on the same movie. However, things go wrong when Colt breaks his back after a life-threatening stunt falling from the ceiling of a skyscraper goes wrong. Colt leaves the stunt game and his relationship with Jody also falls by the wayside. 18 months later, producer Gail (Waddingham) tracks Colt down while he is working as a valet at a restaurant, saying that Jody has requested him to work on her directorial debut.

Colt will do anything for Jody and jumps on the first plane to Australia, where sci-fi blockbuster Metal Storm is currently being filmed. Colt gets to work on the most impossible stunts, and Gail soon informs him that Tom Ryder hasn’t turned up on set for days, and neither has his former stunt double. Gail wants Colt to find out what exactly is going on with Ryder, and figures he is the best person to do so, as he knows him so well from doubling for him.

Elsewhere, it turns out, Jody had no idea Colt was being brought onto the set of her movie, and while filming a scene that involves repeatedly setting Colt on fire, the pair try to work through how their communication broke down in the first place. Colt reveals that he was too in his own head about reaching out to Jody, not wanting her to see the reality of what happened. Jody says that all she wanted to do was be there for him.

How does The Fall Guy end?

After finding out that Tom Ryder has fallen in with bad people, he starts a dangerous mission to try and find out the truth. He heads to his apartment to try and find clues, but is blindsided by Tom's girlfriend, and after a fight, she tells him Tom has been meeting with drug dealers on the side. After a grisly encounter at a club where Colt is spiked, he ends up at the hotel where Jody and Gail are staying, and a receptionist points towards a particular room where he'll find Tom.

Colt finds a dead man on ice in the room, and is caught leaving on CCTV and tries to warn Gail, who doesn’t respond. Back on set, Jody and Colt are growing closer again, filling in for Tom using a deepfake scan taken of Colt before he started filming. Gail tells Colt he is in too deep with Tom’s enemies and tries to send him on a flight back home. However, he refuses to leave for Jody’s sake and runs into assistant Alma, who has Tom’s phone. A group attacks the pair to try and retrieve it, but it results in a standoff on a moving dumpster truck. While Jody learns that Gail tried to send Colt away, Colt misses turning up for their karaoke plans.

Colt is convinced that the truth lies on Tom’s phone, where he finds the passcode written on a post-it note in Tom’s apartment. Colt learns that during a drunken party, Tom killed his previous stunt double after being questioned about doing his own stunts. This was the body on ice in the bath, with Tom and Gail bringing Colt to Australia to frame him for the murder. The gang arrives at Tom’s apartment to try and get the phone back, which results in a shootout that leads to Tom trapping Colt on his private yacht.

Colt manages to escape from Tom and his henchman with a particularly clever fire-blowing stunt, and flees onto a waiting boat. While on the boat, a deep fake clip of Colt’s face on Tom’s body makes the news, which incriminates him as the suspect in the stunt double’s murder. Colt phones Jody to tell her that he’s lived his life in complete regret since his accident and professes his love for her. The boat explodes into the ocean and Colt is presumed to be dead.

Colt being the expert stuntman that he is, it is revealed he faked his own death, and he emerges from the water and makes his way to Jody’s trailer in disguise. Colt tells Jody what happened, and they come up with a plan to get Tom to confess. Tom Ryder returns to the Metal Storm’s set to film his final scenes and is challenged to perform his own stunts. Thinking he is the only one in a car doing close-ups for VFX, Colt appears next to him and threatens to drive the car off a 250-foot jump. Tom's henchman and Gail chase after the car and Jody and the crew try to put obstacles in their way. Colt manages to get Tom to confess to the framing and murder, with Jody’s sound team recording through Tom’s microphone.

Gail then turns on the crew to try and get the recorded tape, with an all-out fight breaking out between the crew and the gang. Gail flees in a helicopter along with Tom, but Colt manages to get on board by jumping from a camera crane. A fight breaks out, and Colt retrieves the tape and jumps onto a crash mat the crew has waiting for him below. Colt’s name is cleared, and his love affair with Jody resumes.

What happens during The Fall Guy's post-credits scene?

Before the post-credits scene, there is some behind-the-scenes footage of The Fall Guy's stunt team performing a series of impressive action scenes. This is then followed by a sequence that honors the original television series it's based on, and takes place in the aftermath of the final showdown. The police turn up to arrest Tom and Gail, and Tom tries to escape through the desert, desperately trying to get a phone signal, and accidentally blows himself up. The original stars of the series, Lee Majors and Heather Thomas, turn up in the scene as the police officers, but significantly, not the ones they played in the 1970s show.

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