Netflix has announced that The Explosives, the action film that had a huge and unexpected success in 2020, becoming the US streaming platform’s most-watched original feature film, will be part of a sequel this summer.

Chris Hemsworth will return in the sequel, which will be released on June 16, in the role of mercenary Tyler Raker. Having miraculously escaped the events of the first film, a new mission awaits him: to rescue the family members of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they are being held, News.ro reports.

The first images of the film were revealed by Netflix last week, in a video that shows some scenes from the premieres of the year (such as Rebel Moonpresented as star Wars directed by Zack Snyder).

The first film of 2020, The Prey, was praised for its particularly thrilling action scenes, and its director Sam Hargrave now promises that the sequel will be even more impressive in this department:

“With a name followed by a 2, you need at least twice as many actions.”

The first film, “Extraction”, became a hit on Netflix

Mining 2 Produced by film director brothers Joe and Anthony Russo Avengers Final and Gray manas well as Golshifteh Farakhani, the producer of the first film as well.

Gray mananother action movie that received the biggest budget in Netflix’s history for a feature film, met with a less than warm reception from the streaming platform’s customers and rather sour comments from film critics after its release last summer.

However, the same could not be said about the first film Productionwhich was praised by Netflix users, becoming at the time the most watched original film in the history of the streaming platform after its premiere on April 24, 2020, after reaching nearly 100 million households.

Critics were quite lenient, especially for an action film.

Production It was later overtaken among Netflix originals in terms of viewsRed messageanother action movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot.

But the release announcement Mining 2 has already created a stir among fans, especially since it will mark the return of Chris Hemsworth to Netflix after he announced last November that he would be taking a break from acting after being diagnosed with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease.

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