Director and stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave took to Instagram to confirm that production on Netflix’s forthcoming follow-up to last year’s hit action thriller Extraction has finally begun in Prague. His post, which you can check out below, teases the sequel’s setting as it’s expected to bring Chris Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake in a new and cold environment, far from the heated streets of Bangladesh.
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Extraction 2 is once again being directed by Sam Hargrave from a screenplay written by returning scribe Joe Russo. Just like the first film, it is also produced by Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo through their AGBO banner along with Hemsworth.
It will feature the return of Chris Hemsworth as skilled black-ops mercenary Tyler Rake, who was last seen by viewers with a gunshot wound to his neck. It remains to be seen how the sequel will address his survival from his near-fatal injury.
The sequel was originally planning on shooting in Australia, but due to the ongoing pandemic, the streamer decided to move its production to the Czech Republic.
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The original film took place in an underworld of weapons dealers and traffickers and followed a young boy who becomes the pawn in a war between notorious drug lords. After being trapped by kidnappers inside one of the world’s most impenetrable cities, his rescue beckons the unparalleled skill of a mercenary named Tyler Rake. But Rake is a broken man with nothing to lose, harboring a death wish that makes an already deadly mission near impossible.
The first film also starred (Thor: Ragnarok), David Harbour (Stranger Things, Black Widow), Derek Luke (13 Reasons Why), Fay Masterson (Vice), Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), and newcomer Rudhraksh Jaiswal.
