Don’t look away! We’re exploring the magic of 2013’s distinctive heist movie Now You See Me, that includes an all-star solid as prison magicians.
In at present’s episode, we’re pulling the curtain all the way in which again for 2013’s Now You See Me– We wish to understand how an all-star solid turned grasp magicians and fooled a whole division of the FBI, all whereas performing miracles on lush Las Vegas phases. We’re going to debate what the film is, the way it bought made, and even why Isla Fisher refused to return for the sequels. We’re about to get into all of it, so let’s go.
The artwork of the heist film is a fragile factor. It’s not sufficient to stuff a handful of celebrities in an extravagant location and provides them a giant bag of attractive cash. You need to innovate. Give your staff unimaginable stakes with minimal odds, whereas inventing a captivating and witty dynamic between the characters. Oh, and naturally, you’re gonna need that bag of attractive cash. Within the case of Now you See Me, Summit Entertainment commissioned a script from Ed Solomon, Boas Yakin, and Edward Ricourt which noticed 4 magicians take heart stage as our heist artists. I need to admit, the idea of utilizing sleight of hand to drag of robberies is compelling, isn’t it? Effectively, Lionsgate leisure definitely thought in order they picked up distribution of the movie and launched it in theaters in 2013 boasting a major solid of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harralson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo, and Morgan Freeman.
The movie follows 4 impartial magicians who every have their very own particular abilities. We’ve bought Eisenberg’s J Daniel Atlas, your typical narcissistic stage illusionist with expertise within the large present. There’s Woody Harralson as Merrick Mckinney, an excentric down-on-his-luck hypnotist and mentalist with a profitable bribery rip-off.
Can’t overlook Isla Fisher, our resident escape artist with the expertise of Houdini and the appears of.. .Effectively, her. After which to spherical out the solid is Dave Franco as Jack, a avenue magician with sticky fingers. These performers are all nice on their very own, making their cash the laborious method however making it nonetheless. That’s till a mysterious entity slips every of them an invite to type a band of robbers recognized solely as “The Four Horsemen”.
Whereas the group that recruited these magicians and whoever’s behind it stay a thriller for a lot of the movie- we’re given some hints that a few of our supporting characters know greater than they’re letting on. Enter Morgan Freeman as Thaddius Bradley, a well known magician debunker who constructed his profession off of exposing magic tips and their strategies to the plenty. Whereas the horseman are acting on phases in Vegas, they’re concurrently robbing banks in France which is one thing they don’t try to hide merely because- how may anybody show it wasn’t only a magic trick, proper? That’s not gonna cease the all the time lovable Mark Ruffalo as detective Dylan Rhodes, from exhausting all of his assets to blow the case vast open. And the cat and mouse sport is afoot.
Now, in typical heist film vogue, the movie itself is filled with entertaining sequences starting from easy decide pocketing to straight up wizardry at a number of points- and with that comes the unlucky facet of this thrilling idea. Whereas audiences like to see magic tips and controversial take pleasure in them extra once they’re getting used to rob banks- it might appear that the writers and director Louis Leterrier might have ignored among the logic of those heists and brought it a step into inconceivable. With a high-level concept like illusionists who knock over banks is enjoyable to play with, the movie appeared to prioritize flash over operate with the illusions bordering on super-human versus sensible magic. This made for a enjoyable romp on the motion pictures, bringing in additional than 3 hundred and fifty million {dollars} on a humble studio price range of 75 million. And that’s actually the factor with summer time blockbusters like Now You See Me and the way they differ from one thing like Ocean’s 11. The place each are inconceivable jobs, Ocean’s 11 is planted on strategies which are believable, the place this film is simply having enjoyable with the concept and relying on audiences to droop our disbelief a bit.
Now, with talks of Now You See Me 3 being within the works, it’s protected to say that on the very least, there’s some degree of curiosity in heading out to the flicks for one more journey with our 4 Horseman. However on that subject, we’ve to speak in regards to the horseman that didn’t return for the second movie, and can seemingly not be round for this subsequent one. That’s proper people, we’re going to speak in regards to the Isla Fisher incident…
The movie started capturing in January 2012 in New Orleans and went till March. Throughout that point, the solid educated with actual magicians like legendary card manipulators Dan and Dave Buck, Eric Jones, and Darren Brown, no quantity of observe may’ve ready Isla Fisher for the shock and concern of virtually drowning to dying on set. Based on the actress, whereas filming a scene by which her character is locked in a water tank. Because it seems, the chain on her cuffs bought caught which didn’t enable her to interrupt free and attain her escape latch. This prompted her to panic and almost drown till a close-by stunt skilled pulled the emergency change to launch her. Isla defined throughout an interview on Chelsea These days that the crew round her was fully unaware that she was locked in and simply thought she was performing some unimaginable appearing. Fortunately, she survived the ordeal and turned in a stellar performance- however she understandably declined to return for the subsequent movie to be able to keep away from being in any harmful conditions with escapes.
For Now You See Me 2, to exchange Isla Fisher because the femme deadly of the group, Lizzie Caplin entered the manufacturing so as to add a layer of humor and thriller to the franchise. Who precisely we will anticipate for the subsequent movie, properly that’s anybody’s guess however I hope to a minimum of see a lot of the solid return for it.
So, has the studio heist movie that’s this film managed to stack as much as the classics of its type? Effectively, I wouldn’t name it this film a traditional, however for those who’re searching for a innocent high-concept heist, or some really (and actually) unbelievable magic- verify this one out earlier than the subsequent one hits screens, or phases, this yr.
And THAT is WTF Occurred to Now You See Me.
