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Ryan Gosling is a three-time Oscar nominee with iconic movies dating back almost 25 years, but it’s safe to say that 2026 has been one of the most important years of his career so far. Gosling returned to the sci-fi genre for one of the most beloved movies of his career, Project Hail Mary, which earned over $600 million at the global box office. He’s also expected to add yet another Oscar nomination for his performance as Ryland Grace in the film. Just last weekend, during Marvel Studios’ Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, Gosling was officially confirmed as the next Ghost Rider in a Shawn Levy-directed film coming to theaters in 2028. He’s also due to star in the next Star Wars movie opening in theaters in May 2027 — Gosling’s stock has never been higher than it is right now.
Long before he was starring in billion-dollar blockbusters, Gosling was giving memorable performances in smaller films like Drive, the 2011 drama produced for only $15 million. This afternoon, to celebrate Drive’s 15th anniversary, Lakeshore Records announced the official release of limited collectors-edition vinyl double LP’s, along with unique reissues of the 5th and 10th anniversary editions of the album. The album features the iconic, synth-driven score from legendary composer Cliff Martinez, and it also includes other artists like College, Electric Youth, and Chromatics. The Drive album reached as high as #4 on iTunes following its release, and it also peaked at #35 on the Billboard Top 200. The new and updated vinyl editions will be released in stores around the world on September 18.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Drive is not available to watch on any streaming platforms at the time of writing, but the film is up for rent or purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive follows a Hollywood stuntman who finds himself in hot water when he tries to help his neighbor’s husband rob a pawn shop. Gosling played a stuntman just a few years ago in the David Leitch-directed action thriller, The Fall Guy, co-starring Emily Blunt. Drive earned strong scores of 91% from critics and 79% from audiences on the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $79 million at the box office, easily turning a profit off its $15 million budget. Oscar Isaac and Bryan Cranston also star in the film.
Check out Gosling’s Drive on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the film’s 15th anniversary.
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