Extraction looks set to be yet another huge franchise for Thor: Love and Thunder star Chris Hemsworth, with the actor set to make his return as lethal mercenary Tyler Rake in a sequel next June.
Like the first instalment, that will premiere on Netflix, picking up with the badass former soldier as he looks to break into an impenetrable prison in a bid to rescue the family of a merciless Georgian gangster. Along the way, we'll learn more about Rake's past, but it sounds like Hemsworth, along with director Sam Hargrave, really wanted to up the ante in terms of action.
"There's something so satisfying about that," Hemsworth tells Entertainment Weekly (via ActioNewz.com) of a fight scene set in a snowy prison yard with more than 300 extras. "Not to take anything away from the special-effects-filled sort of Marvel film, but you have a lot of help in post-production there."
"Obviously, I can't fly, so they help through me that. Whereas in this film, the action is grounded in reality, and so much of it is in camera. So, it's a different energy, and the preparation is a lot more extensive."
The Extraction sequel won't be too grounded in reality, though, as it will also feature a sequence with a helicopter landing on a moving train...all while Rake squares off against a squad of formidable goons, of course. That took months to perfect, but for Hemsworth, it was all worth it in the end.
"Probably the most intense part was not so much the exhaustion levels," the actor explains, "but just the sheer terror of all the things that could have gone wrong, but thankfully didn't."
We're excited to see more from Extraction 2 ahead of its release next June, but for now, a badass new look at Tyler Rake can be found in the still below.