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The world may belong to Tom Holland, but Barbie star Ryan Gosling is making a push to take it from him. He’s got Star Wars: Starfighter in 2027 and his MCU debut in 2028’s Ghost Rider coming up, but after that, he’s eyeing something a little different. According to recent reports, Ryan Gosling is in talks to develop a live-action Flintstones movie centered around Bamm-Bamm.

We wouldn’t have initially picked a live-action movie based on a cartoon from the 1960s as a follow-up to Ghost Rider, but Ryan Gosling clearly sees the potential in the character. Reports are circulating that the movie, which would focus on a grown-up Bamm-Bamm Rubble, is in early development with Warner Bros. Gosling’s production company, Open Invite, and his producing partner Jessie Henderson are also involved in the deal.

It isn’t clear if Ryan Gosling would be set to star in the Flintstones movie, though we could certainly see him as a grown-up version of the boy who was raised by mammoths. Bamm-Bamm only spoke his own name – usually when hitting something with a club – in the original Flintstones cartoon, but he got an expanded vocabulary in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show in 1971. Here he was a high school student who had a job, a spot in a band, and a girlfriend in Pebbles Flintstone.

This deal is still in very early development, per reports, so Ryan Gosling has plenty of time before he is tied down to playing Bamm-Bamm in a Flintstones movie. After he gets done with Star Wars and the MCU, he’ll have a chance to head to Bedrock.

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