According to the director Sam Hargrave the 20 minute single take action scene took 4-5 months to rehearse and 29 days to shoot.
Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Bessa reprise their roles
During a tense one-on-one fight scene Tyler Rake uses whatever comes to hand to get the better of his opponent, but he is thwarted when he reaches for a large hammer. In a different film franchise Chris Hemsworth, the actor who portrays Tyler Rake, portrays a character called Thor who uses a large hammer in an unthwarted fashion against opponents.
During the train scene, Rake grabs a machine gun and uses it to try to shoot down attacking helicopters. The gun has a visible ammo belt attached and Rake fires off way more shots than that belt has ammo for.
Extraction 2 is a 2023 American action thriller film.
Extraction 2 was released by Netflix on June 16, 2023, and is now available to stream on the platform.
Filming for the sequel was slated to begin in Sydney, Australia in September 2021.
Filming officially wrapped on April 6, 2022.
Further shooting began in Vienna, Austria on January 28, 2022.
Golshifteh Farahani, an Iranian-born actor who played the role of Nik, said in an interview that Extraction II (2023) had the least special effects and they did almost all the scenes without stuntmen. She said Team Ka actually parked a rat helicopter on the train.
In December 2020, the Russo Brothers stated that beyond the sequel they hope to develop a series of films set within the world of Extraction to not only explore some of the characters that were introduced in the first film but to potentially launch a cinematic universe
In January 2021, it was rumored that the Russo brothers were also working on an origin story for Randeep Hooda’s character Saju.
In May 2020, it was reported Joe Russo had been hired to write a sequel to the film, with the intention of both Sam Hargrave and Chris Hemsworth returning
It is a sequel to the 2020 film Extraction.
It is directed by Sam Hargrave.
It is written by Joe Russo.
It lasted until February 14, 2022.
Measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic moved production to Prague.
Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100.
On November 29, 2021, Hargrave announced that principal photography had begun in Prague, Czech Republic, before Hemsworth announced that he began filming his scenes on December 4.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 75% rating.
One of the major filming locations is set to take place in Prague, Czech Republic.
Part of the prison scene was filmed in the same location where they shot the opening sequence of Mission Impossible 5 where Tom Cruise goes in to pull Yuri out of the prison.
Plans intended for theatrical engagement after similar to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), following positive reviews on the first film but it was ultimately scrapped.
Reshoots for the film took place in Prague in November 2022.
Scenes were shot at Donau City in the vicinity of the DC Towers.
Teams Idris Elba back with Chris Hemsworth, following their appearances in the MCU as Heimdall and Thor respectively.
The casting of Idris Elba was never announced and appears to have originally been planned as an uncredited cameo, this is backed by his character never revealing his name when asked and the sequel tease at the end where he once again avoids the question. However, Idris is ultimately credited as Alcott in the closing credits.
The film is based on the graphic novel Ciudad by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando León González, and Eric Skillman
The film was shot on the ARRI ALEXA Mini LF cameras by implementing the same long-take strategies from the first film
The one-take action sequence during the first act of the film is 21 minutes long.
The scene at the end when Zurab shoots at Nik at the church, Zurab should not have been able to fire a shot since his 1911 pistol was single action. He hadn’t racked the slide back and the hammer was not cocked back.
The website’s consensus reads: “Bigger, bolder, and in some respects even better than its predecessor, Extraction 2 is an over-the-top action thriller done right”
There were two simple chances to kill Zurab Radiani during the fight at the roof of the building. Once by Tyler and once by Nik, but they simply left him.
Tyler is seen watching a game of AFL (Australian Rules Football) early in the film. The team playing are the Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs. Chris Hemsworth is a fan of the Bulldogs and attended the grand final in 2016 that won them their first AFL premiership.
Vienna’s “Donauplatte”, an architecturally modern area of the Austrian capital, was the filming location for 2 weeks from February 01 to February 14, 2022. Several businesses, including a day care center, had to close down for two weeks -the latter specially because of the action sequences in order not to frighten children during filming. This was the biggest movie production in Austrian capital since Mission Impossible 5.
When Idris Alba’s character is drinking a beer from a bottle in the beginning of the movie, in the second shot you can clearly see he’s almost finishing the beer, in the next shot it’s half full.
With an average rating of 6.5/10.
With Olga Kurylenko, Daniel Bernhardt, Tinatin Dalakishvili and Idris Elba joining the cast.