Where have all of the years gone? The real magic trick is figuring out how twelve years have passed since Now You See Me was launched in 2013, establishing high-stakes heist thrills with the spectacle of illusion. That film made over $350M worldwide, while the 2016 sequel did nearly as well. After a longer-than-expected wait, the third movie, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, reunites the Four Horsemen for what will be their greatest caper yet.
Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and a returning Isla Fisher are back as the Four Horsemen, illusionists who use their skills to steal from the rich and give to the poor, basically. This has earned them a bunch of enemies, as you can imagine.
Mark Ruffalo and Morgan Freeman reprise their roles from the previous movies, joined by the new generation led by Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), and Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers). No Lizzy Caplan, though. Kind of a shame.
Ruben Fleischer directs the third movie and will return for the fourth. He’s working from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith, Michael Lesslie, and Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese. Wernick and Reese worked with Fleischer on Zombieland years ago.
SYNOPSIS: “The Four Horsemen return along with a new generation of illusionists performing mind-melding twists, turns, surprises, and magic unlike anything ever captured on film.” With the returning Horsemen, the new faces, and Fleischer’s direction, Lionsgate is framing this long-awaited sequel as a relaunch of a franchise that once made audiences second-guess every card trick, escape act, and perfectly timed reveal.
So this looks like a passing of the torch situation, with Lionsgate already set for a fourth movie that Fleischer will direct. The tricks aren’t ending any time soon.
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t opens on November 14th.
