‘Extraction 2’ trailer confirms the return of Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake

Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth will once again return as Tyler Rake in ‘Extraction 2’ putting an end to the rumour that his character didn’t survive the events of the first film. The character stopped by ‘TUDUM: A Netflix Global Fan Event to share the first look at ‘Extraction 2’.

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Extraction will once again be directed by Sam Hargrave and is written by Joe Russo, and produced by Avengers Endgame’s Joe and Anthony Russo.

The story will pick up immediately where the first one ended as we see Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake seemingly escape the river he fell in. The trailer  contains mostly footage from the first film, but promises at least one more adventure for Rake.

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Plans for an ‘Extraction’ sequel were confirmed only a month after the film’s debut and, in July 2020, Netflix revealed that the film had the best debut for the streamer’s original movies with an audience of over 99 million in its first four weeks.

Later that year, the Russo brothers discussed how they would love to build out an entire cinematic universe for ‘Extraction’ that would allow them to explore the stories of some of the other characters in its world, reports in.ign. 

The American action thriller film is based on the graphic novel Ciudad by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando León González, and Eric Skillman. The film’s cast also features  Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, Golshifteh Farahani, Pankaj Tripathi and David Harbour.

The film is about an Australian black ops mercenary whose mission to rescue an Indian drug lord’s kidnapped son in Dhaka, Bangladesh goes awry when he is double-crossed.

Netflix released Extraction on April 24, 2020. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances, Cinematography and action sequences, but criticized the plot and excessive violence. 

Marko Forker, Lynzi Grant, Craig Wentworth, and Olivier Sarda were nominated by the Visual Effects Society at the 19th Visual Effects Society Awards on April 6, 2021 in the category Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature for the film.