Extraction 2 will be very different from the first movie

Extraction quickly became one of Netflix’s most popular films of all time, so it’s easy to see why they got the ball rolling on a sequel so quickly. Although it would be all too easy to repeat what worked the first time around, it seems that Extraction 2 will be very different from the first movie.

While on a press tour for The Gray Man, Extraction 2 screenwriter Joe Russo spoke with Collider about what we can expect from the new movie.

It’s great. It’s very different from ‘Extraction 1’, which we like. It’s its own movie in that regard. It has a different color schematic. It’s set in a different part of the world. It has a different pace, a different tone than the first one. And that, to us, is an interesting way to approach serializing a story, is that it’s more surprising and unexpected, and you’re not going to get the exact same movie that you got the last time out. So we’re really excited about it, and we think it was beautifully shot. Hemsworth’s fantastic in it. And we’re excited to share it with audiences.

The first movie starred Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, “a fearless black market mercenary who embarks on the deadliest mission of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an international crime lord.” Production on Extraction 2 wrapped up several months ago, and from what we’ve seen so far, Tyler Rake’s latest adventure will take him somewhere much more frigid than Bangladesh. Hemsworth also teased back in October that the sequel will be “bigger and badder” than the first.

Joe Russo’s next project will be The Gray Man, an action-thriller that he directed alongside his brother Anthony Russo. “The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six,” reads the official synopsis. “Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.” The Gray Man will hit select theaters on July 15th, followed by a Netflix release on July 22nd.