The Russo Brothers Are Writing EXTRACTION 2 and Are Looking to Build an EXTRACTION Universe
Extraction came out in April of this year, just a month into the nation-wide quarantine that had everyone going a little crazy. Everyone was ready for new content, seeing as how seasons to a lot of series were ending, and movie theaters had been shut down for a while. It came out at a good time, and did really well at Netflix. The movie stars Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, “a fearless black market mercenary,” who “embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he’s enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.”
The film wasn’t bad. It came out at a time that fans needed a little escape, and it did a good job of it. It wrapped up nicely in the end, but because of the great numbers it pulled in, the sequel is already being written. And a sequel is just the beginning according to producers The Russo Brothers. Joe Russo wrote the film, and in an interview with Collider, Joe Russo revealed plans to turn Extraction into a franchise, saying:
“I’m still not gonna commit because I think it’s more exciting to surprise people, but I will say this: we are working at building out a universe of films that could potentially explore some of the other characters from the first movie and some new characters, and see more historical interaction between the characters. So if you’re interested in David Harbour’s character, you just may get to see him in a future Extraction movie.”
Russo went on to add:
“We’re trying to find more interesting ways to tell these stories and cross-pollinate them. We’re big fans of just forging new paths in narrative. Can we go backwards and forwards at the same time? Can things that happened in the past affect the movies in the present? What are new ways to tell those stories? And can we see different points of view? Every antagonist is the protagonist in their own story, so can we see their point of view? How do they perceive the world? What makes them empathetic? I think what makes that a compelling element to the Extraction universe is it is a global franchise telling global stories, and we’d like to diversify the point of view in those movies.”
I’m not positive that the subsequent movies actually would do as well as the first, but I guess we will just have to wait and see. Would you be excited for several more films in an Extraction universe?