Yes, it’s true. The third Now You See Me is coming out later this year and it is, in fact, called Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. But having finally embraced this franchise’s most exciting title treatment, the question becomes, can it live up to that? The first trailer is here to help answer that question and it sure seems likely.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Uncharted, Venom), Now You See Me: Now You Don’t sees the Four Horseman (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, and Woody Harrelson) teaming up with a new team of magicians (Dominic Sessa, Justice Smith, and Ariana Greenblatt) to take down an evil crime syndicate lead by Rosamund Pike. Check out the trailer.
For the most part, this looks like more of the same: characters doing big, elaborate magic tricks as a way to battle the bad guys. Which, honestly, is fine with us. As long as this franchise can keep giving us fun twists and turns along with cool, probably impossible magic tricks performed by all these excellent actors, we are here for it. And this trailer looks like it’s all that and more.
Noticeably absent from this trailer, however, is Mark Ruffalo, who was such a prominent part of the previous two films. At the end of the last film, he was given a promotion by Morgan Freeman’s character, Thaddeus. We have to assume there was some scheduling issue and the film will address his absence but, even with everyone else in this one, it’s a little upsetting. We love us some Ruffalo.
Nevertheless, Lionsgate is so high on this third film, it’s already rehired Fleischer to start working on a fourth one. So we should be in for a treat come November when this hits theaters. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t opens on November 14.
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