‘Back in Action’ director has ‘a few ideas’ about who could join the cast of a sequel after the explosive ending

• Warning: Spoilers below if you haven’t seen “Back in Action.”

• Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz play former spies who must save their children from a villain in Netflix’s “Back in Action.”

• Director Seth Gordon told Business Insider that he wants to cast a big name to play Diaz’s father in a potential sequel.

Netflix’s “Back in Action” follows Matt (Jamie Foxx) and Emily (Cameron Diaz), two former CIA spies who, after leaving the agency to start a family, are thrown back into the espionage game 15 years later when their cover is blown and their children are kidnapped.

The action comedy concludes with a thrilling brawl by the Thames in London, where Matt and Emily save their children – with the help of Emily’s estranged mother, Ginny (Glenn Close), a gun-wielding ex-spy – and the bad guy, Chuck (Kyle Chandler). ), dies in a burning wreck.

In the final sequence, Matt and Emily cheer on their daughter at her soccer game and seem to be back to living their normal lives.

But suddenly MI6 agent Baron (Andrew Scott) appears and informs Matt and Emily that they never found Chuck’s body. They will now hire Emily’s father to help them with the search. Matt is shocked that Emily never told him about her father.

The ending clearly sets the stage for a sequel that will add another big name to this already star-studded potential franchise.

“I have a few ideas, yes,” “Back in Action” director Seth Gordon told BI when asked if he has any actors in mind to play the father. “I don’t want to say because who knows what’s going to happen, but there’s definitely a plan for what we can do.”

It definitely has to be someone who can have a playful rapport with not only Diaz and Foxx, but Close, as the two characters have a history.

Gordon said the fun of developing the project was plugging comedic elements of the family dynamic — Matt and Emily’s son spends too much time on his devices while their daughter lies about studying to go out and party with friends — around the action sequences.

“This came out of all these conversations I had with producer Beau Bauman about what we’re dealing with with our kids,” Gordon said.

“I think what really works in the film is that you see this family dealing with traditional family issues in their very specific and crazy way, so I think that would be a good thing to continue in the sequel,” Gordon said.

He’s already thinking about what else he could do in a potential follow-up: “What are some other life events you had that involve the kids where things could haunt Emily and Matt from their past?”

“Back in Action” is now available on Netflix.

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