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RZA with a sword. Christopher Lloyd blasting away with a gatling gun and Sharon Stone getting down with her bad self. It must be the official trailer for Nobody 2 and Bob Odenkirk’s family man/expert assassin Hutch is back in full effect in director Timo Tjahjanto’s balls to the wall sequel adequately titled Nobody 2. It’s National Lampoon’s Vacation if Clark Griswold was a secret ultra-killer with family issues and his vacation was interrupted by bullets and grenades, and we have the official first look complete with Lindsay Buckingham’s Holiday Road to serenade all the broken bones, blood, carnage and family love!
Four years after he inadvertently took on the Russian mob, Hutch remains $30 million in debt to the criminal organization and is working it off with an unending string of hits on international thugs.
As much as he likes the slam-bang action of his “job,” Hutch and his wife Becca (International Emmy nominee Connie Nielsen) find themselves overworked and drifting apart. So, they decide to take their kids (Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath) on a short getaway to Wild Bill’s Majestic Midway and Waterpark, the one and only place where Hutch and his brother Harry (Grammy and Emmy nominee RZA) went on a vacation as kids.
With Hutch’s dad (Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd) in tow, the family arrives in the small tourist town of Plummerville (“Plummerville is Summerville!”), eager for some fun in the sun.
But when a minor encounter with some town bullies yanks the family into the crosshairs of a corrupt theme-park operator (John Ortiz; Fast and Furious franchise, Bumblebee) and his shady sheriff (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Colin Hanks), Hutch finds himself the focus of the most unhinged, blood-thirsty crime boss he (or anyone) has ever encountered (Emmy winning and Oscar nominated screen icon, Sharon Stone).
I have admitted in the past that while I did enjoy the first Nobody, it did leave me a little wanting but Timo is here to save the day and this one looks to outdo the original in every way imaginable. I mean when you have a still hot Sharon Stone hamming it up as the main antagonist, what could go wrong? The first official trailer is a generous helping of everything I did love about the first film amped up to 100.
Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, The Shadow Strays) helms from a script penned by John Wick‘s Derek Kolstad and Aaron Rabin (Tom Clancy’s Jack RyanRyan) from a story by Kolstad, based on characters he created. Action maestro David Leitch produces along with Kelly McCormick (Bullet Train, The Fall Guy) via their 87North production banner. Odenkirk also produces per his /Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment production banner with Marc Provissiero (No Hard Feelings, PEN15) and Eighty Two Films founder Braden Aftergood (Hell or High Water, Samaritan).
Action faithful know they are in good hands with this one and it looks to check boxes that we didn’t even know we needed checking. I’m all in and the first one has grown on me so I’m amped up for all the family bonding, beatdowns and bravado with some bullets for the ultimate flavor!
Nobody 2 hits theaters on August 15th!
