The 'Back in Action' director has 'a couple ideas' of who could join the cast for a sequel after that explosive ending
Director Seth Gordon explains the "Back in Action" ending and how it could lead to a sequel.
- Warning: Spoilers below if you haven't seen "Back in Action."
- Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz play former spies who have to save their kids from a villain in Netflix's "Back in Action."
- Director Seth Gordon told Business Insider 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 thrust back into the espionage game 15 years later when their cover is blown and their kids are kidnapped.
The action comedy concludes with a thrilling fight on London's River Thames where Matt and Emily save their kids — with the help of Emily's estranged mother, Ginny (Glenn Close), a gun-toting former spy — and the bad guy, Chuck (Kyle Chandler), dies in a fiery wreck.
In the final sequence, Matt and Emily are cheering for their daughter at her soccer game and appear 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 now want to enlist Emily's father to help them with the search. Matt is shocked, as 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've got a couple ideas, yes," "Back in Action" director Seth Gordon told BI when asked if he has any actors in mind to play the father role. "I'm not going to say because who knows what's going to happen, but there's definitely a plan of what we could do."
It certainly would have to be someone who can have a playful rapport opposite not just Diaz and Foxx but Close, as the two characters have a history.
Gordon said the fun of developing the project was plugging in comedic elements of the family dynamic — Matt and Emily's son spending too much time on his devices, while their daughter lies about studying to go out partying with friends — around the action sequences.
"This came out of all these conversations I had with the producer Beau Bauman of what we deal with with our kids," Gordon said.
"I think what really works in the movie is you see this family deal 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 that you got that involve the kids where things could haunt Emily and Matt from their past?"
"Back in Action" is available now on Netflix.