Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy Film Sparks Outrage As Production Shuts Down Sydney Harbor Bridge

Ryan Gosling’s new movie The Fall Guy took over the Sydney Opera House to film scenes on Sunday, halting the flow of traffic on one of the city’s busiest motorways.

The iconic bridge was closed in both directions from 3 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday, while the bike path and trail were closed from 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.

The Cahill Expressway footbridge was closed from 2:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Frustrated Sydney residents took to Twitter to criticize the production for causing major traffic delays across the city.

“It’s great to see the closure of the Sydney Harbor Bridge – 8 lanes, plus bike and pedestrian lanes – so they could shoot a fucking movie. But it’s great that they could use an iconic bridge in a movie because that bridge needs a bit of sprucing up.” exposition”.

“I just want to know how much they paid the government for such an inconvenience,” another tweeted, while another added: “Surely with film technology this could have been filmed elsewhere and then rearranged to look like it was filmed on the Harbor Bridge.” .’

“I just found out that the NSW government paid Ryan Gosling $1.5 million to film over the Harbor Bridge. Hope they didn’t wake up the 100 homeless calling home under the bridge,” another user wrote.

A Neutral Bay resident also told Daily Mail Australia it was a “nightmare” to have helicopters buzzing around the heavily populated area in the early hours.

The full-scale production saw the bridge packed with film crews, as well as a handful of cars and trucks for what would be the epic scenes.

Helicopters were also seen in the sky flying low while filming the action.

Photos from the bridge showed production in full swing in the port city with Gosling squatting next to his stunt double.

At one point, he appeared to be riding on the edge of a dumpster in scenes that take place on the bridge.

Fall Guy began filming in September, after Gosling arrived in Australia with his wife Eva Mendez and their children.

The film will be based on the 1980 television series of the same name and will be directed by John Wick director David Leitch.

The Fall Guy, which was released in 1981, centered on a stuntman who led a double life as a bounty hunter.

The show’s cast was headlined by Six Million Dollar Man’s Lee Majors and also included Heather Thomas and Markie Post.

The Fall Guy ran for a total of five seasons, the last of which concluded in 1986.

Development on the show’s film adaptation initially began in 2010, with Martin Campbell being considered as its director.

Later, the project was evaluated and it was announced that McG would direct the feature three years later.

At the time, Dwayne Johnson was in negotiations to star in the film.

However, both entertainment industry figures left the project, which was picked up by Leitch in 2020, when it was announced that Gosling had signed on to star.