Netflix has released the first trailer for its most expensive movie ever, The Gray Man, which stars Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans and is directed by Marvel veterans Joe and Anthony Russo.

　　The Gray Man is a spy thriller featuring Gosling as Court Gentry AKA Sierra Six AKA "the gray man." Evans plays his "psychopathic" adversary, former CIA agent Lloyd Hansen, who is hunting him down across the world with the help of agent Dani Miranda, who is played by Ana de Armas.

　　The movie also stars Regé-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Henwick, Dhanush, Wagner Moura, and Alfre Woodard. The story is based on Mark Greaney's novel, The Gray Man, and the screenplay is written by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely. The movie releases July 22.

　　The Gray Man was originally set up at Sony before it went back into the market where Netflix bought it. According to Deadline, Netflix is eyeing The Gray Man to become a new franchise, and it's spending more than $200 million to produce the film--that's the highest budget ever for a Netflix original movie.

　　In other Netflix news, the company recently laid off 150 US-based workers amid big subscriber losses.