SXSW Lineup Sets ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘3 Body Problem’ Among Fest’s 2024 World Premieres As First Titles Revealed:

The SXSW Film & TV Festival said Wednesday that Universal’s The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling will serve as the 2024 edition’s Centerpiece film, and Netflix’s 3 Body Problem from David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo will open the fest’s opening-night TV premiere.

The news comes as the festival, whose 31st edition runs March 8-16 in Austin, unveiled first titles in its Feature and Short Competitions, Midnighters, Global and XR Experience categories. See the list below, which includes berths for the world premiere of Pamela Adlon’s Babes, the Daisy Ridley-starring Magpie, Prentice Penny’s docuseries Black Twitter, Season 3 of Hacks and the final season of Star Trek: Discovery.

Organizers said today that more titles, including the opening- and closing-night films, will be announced early next month across Headliner, Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighter, Global, 24 Beats Per Second, Festival Favorite and Special Event sections (film) and TV Premiere, TV Spotlight and the Independent TV Pilot Competition (TV). The SXSW 2024 Shorts Film Program will present six competitive sections, along with XR Experience Competition, XR Spotlight and XR Special Event programming.

The Fall Guy, from director David Leitch, stars Gosling as stuntman Colt Seavers along with Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu. The screening comes ahead of the pic’s wide release May 3 to help kick off the summer box office.

The 3-Body Problem is long-in-the-works mystery series adapted by Game of Thrones duo Benioff and Weiss and Woo based on Liu Cixin’s sci-fi trilogy. Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng, Saamer Usmani, Benedict Wong and Jonathan Pryce headline the series, which lands on Netflix on March 21.

For today’s announced pics, view this article at Deadline.