Netflix Tudum: Chris Hemsworth confirms Extraction 3 in the works

Chris Hemsworth confirmed a third Extraction movie is in the works, as he described his work on the films as “exhausting” and “exhilarating”.

Chris Hemsworth’s new Netflix movie only dropped on Friday night, but another instalment has already been greenlit.

Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave revealed on Saturday at Netflix’s Tudum fan event that Extraction 3 is already in the works.

“Guess what? Between us, as friends, we’re already talking about Extraction 3,” he said to the 15,000 screaming fans gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, plus the legion more at home on live streaming.

Extraction is proving to be a lucrative franchise for Netflix and producers Joe and Anthony Russo. The first film was, at one time, Netflix’s most watched original film after clocking up 99 million hours in the first 28 days of release.

The second film is currently the most watched movie on Netflix in Australia while the release of the sequel even bumped the 2020 original back into the top 10 at number five.

The film stars Hemsworth as a black ops mercenary and former soldier named Tyler Rake who is contracted to mount impossible rescues. In the first movie, Tyler has to save the son of an Indian drug lord while in the second, he’s recruited to break out a gangster’s family from a Georgian prison.

Extraction 2 is on Netflix now. Picture: Jasin Boland/Netflix © 2023

The Extraction movies have been praised for their raw, complex action sequences. Director Hargrave is a former stuntman and first met Hemsworth when Hargrave was the double for Chris Evans on the Marvel movies.

Extraction 2 features a 21-minute action scene staged to appear as if it was done in “one shot”.

Hemsworth in Sao Paulo told news.com.au that the titanic feat was an epic ambition.

“When we did the first film, we did an 11-minute one and I said, ‘That was great, I’m proud of it, let’s never do it again’, and Sam came back and said, ‘We’re going to do it again and we’re going to double it,” he said.

“It was exhausting, it was exhilarating, it was painful at times, but I’ve got to say the elation and the sense of achievement, once we’d done it, was unlike anything I’ve ever felt and what you see on screen, there’s a visceral integrity and truth you can’t fake, and you don’t get when you shoot against a green screen.

“Ninety-five per cent of what you see in the film happens within the frame on the day, so there’s a spontaneity and grit to it.”

Speaking an hour before a third movie was confirmed, Hemsworth chuckled at the proposal of redoubling the length of another one-shot scene if there was to be a sequel.

He said, “We’ve dug ourselves in a hole. ‘Let’s do the whole film as a one-r’ and everyone’s like, ‘Good, let’s do it’ so if there’s a third one, it’ll be a mountain to climb, I’m sure.”

Hemsworth and Hargrave on stage at Netflix’s Tudum event. Picture: Helena Yoshioka / Netflix

Hargrave had nothing but praise for Hemsworth’s aptitude for action scenes and stunts.

He told news.com.au, “He should’ve been a stunt performer. But then you guys would’ve been robbed of his beautiful acting and his amazing voice. He’s handled everything like a professional stunt performer. He trains like one, he trains hard, he’s in the gym every day. I haven’t found a challenge for him he can’t do.

“It’s thrilling that he’s so excited about this role. Audiences can tell the difference when you have a whole bunch of blue screen and a lot of stuff is CG. What we try to do with this franchise is put real actors in real situations and have them perform real action and audiences are responding to that.”

Extraction 2 is currently on Netflix

The writer travelled to Sao Paulo, Brazil as a guest of Netflix