'Now You See Me 2' debuted its latest trailer featuring the return of the Four Horsemen. Daniel Radcliff joins the new cast as a tech prodigy obsessed with magic while Lizzy Caplan of 'Mean Girls' fame will replace Isla Fisher as the female horseman.
According to Coming Soon, Summit Entertainment unveiled the official trailer for Jon M. Chu's upcoming action-comedy and thriller film intended as the follow-up to the 2013 film of the same name. Its predecessor was directed by Louis Leterrier and introduced Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco as four gifted magicians called the 'Four Horsemen' who pull off bank heists for their audience.
The new trailer featured the return of the Four Horsemen in their comeback performances to expose a high-tech magnate allegedly engaged in unethical practices. According to /Film, Daniel Radcliffe will play Walter Mabry, a technology prodigy determined to steal a MacGuffin with the help of the Four Horsemen. It will be the illusionists' greatest heist yet.
According to an article by Entertainment Weekly, Chu hinted at Radcliff's character in the new film saying, "There's definitely more than meets the eye... He's not an idiot. He really loves magic. He was probably a kid who did magic all the time and was obsessed with it and somehow made a fool of himself or it just didn't work out for him. He's gone the other way."
Chu added, "He knows all the different magic tricks of all different people and figured out how they all work. In fact, in his [home], you'll see that he's torn up all the famous magic tricks to figure out how it works in almost this grotesque way that he's picked apart everything, and studied the Horsemen, and knows how they do everything, and has created this journey for them so that they can't escape."
Lizzy Caplan is set to replace Isla Fisher in the sequel. The 33-year old actress is best known for her roles in several television series and films including 'True Blood', 'Masters of Sex', 'Cloverfield', 'Mean Girls' and 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.
Other members of the cast include Mark Ruffalo, Jay Chou, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. Chu's sequel took cast and crew members to various locales in London and Macau for principal photography.
Its predecessor was a box office success, earning $351 million against a $75 million budget. It received mixed reviews from critics but was awarded the People's Choice Awards for Favorite Thriller Movie in 2014. The sequel was announced by Lionsgate's CEO Jon Feltheimer in 2013.
'Now You See Me: The Second Act' is an upcoming action-comedy thriller directed by Jon M. Chu. It is scheduled to be released on June 10, 2016.
