It has been six years since Now You See Me 2 adopted up the primary movie, mixing illusions, humour and heists and incomes greater than $600 million mixed on the international field workplace. Now Lionsgate is headed again to the effectively a 3rd time, hiring Uncharted director Ruben Fleischer to make the brand new movie.

This newest entry within the franchise has been within the works for some time, with Prime Gun: Maverick co-writer Eric Warren Singer writing a draft. The studio, although, is now bringing in Seth Grahame-Smith to crank out a brand new model.

Fleischer, after all, has kind with two of the Now You See Me essential solid – Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson – who he directed in each Zombieland motion pictures. Eisenberg and Harrelson are anticipated to return as Daniel Atlas and Merritt McKinney, two of the 4 Horsemen, a gaggle of proficient illusionists who pull off robberies in opposition to rich, detached industrialists, because the legislation struggles to catch as much as them.

“There are three issues on this world I completely love… Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and magic. To have the prospect to work with these two proficient actors, in addition to remainder of the unimaginable solid of the Now You See Me motion pictures is a dream come true,” says Fleischer in an announcement. “I’m a lifelong fan of heist motion pictures – I really like getting drawn in by the twists and the thriller the place nothing is what it appears. And that’s much more true when the thieves are magicians – the alternatives are infinite. Eric was capable of unlock a contemporary and thrilling method into a brand new film and enjoyable new characters, so I’m excited to dig in even additional.”

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