A new report at Deadline revealed on Monday that producer and director Joe Russo has locked a deal to pen the script for Extraction 2 for Netflix.
The first film launched on the streamer on April 24, signaling a reunion for Joe and brother Anthony Russo, producing out of their AGBO banner, with industry stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave making his feature debut, and Chris Hemsworth starring and producing.
Storied and scripted by the Russos with inspiration from Ande Parks’ 2014 novel, “Ciudad”, Extraction saw the story of Tyler Rake, a stoic former soldier-turned-black ops mercenary who finds himself battling enemies on all sides on the streets of India, to rescue the son of an imprisoned crime boss from his vicious rival.
The report insists that Hemsworth may return, though one small detail Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. notes is that “…Several of the characters had past stories though, so there is flexibility if the film took the form of a prequel.”
The Russos, Hemsworth and Hargrave share a distinctive history working on various Marvel films through last year’s decennary Infinity Saga finale, Avengers: Endgame. Apart from their forthcoming endeavors at AGBO, sibling filmmaker duo are steadying the development process as writing takes place with the prospects of both star and director returning.
Hemsworth is set to continue his adventures at Marvel/Disney with Taika Waititi for Thor: Love and Thunder which roars in 2022, and for Todd Phillips’ forthcoming Hulk Hogan biopic which was initially touted at The Hollywood Reporter last February, with details also being ironed out for Netflix at the time.
Read our review of Extraction by clicking here.
Lead pic: Jason Boland/Netflix