Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas star in The Gray Man Netflixs new Bond

STORY: In the new Netflix movie The Gray Man, Ryan Gosling s character jokes that he goes by the name Six because 007 was taken. The film is a bigbudget, effectsfilled thriller in the spirit of a James Bond adventure. Netflix and the movie s directors hope the film, which starts streaming on Friday (July 22), will launch the company s own longrunning spy series. Gosling stars as Sierra Six, a former inmate sprung from prison by the CIA in exchange for servitude in a secret program. I ve always wanted to make an action movie, Gosling told Reuters. Action was my first love. It made me fall in love with movies in the first place. It took a minute to get there and find the right However, he was surprised by the amount of action in the movie. By action movie standards this is very extreme because there s like 9 action set pieces whereas most action films have half of that so it was real trial by fire for me having it