Who does Daniel Radcliffe really play?
What’s up with the title?
Jon M. Chu spills secrets.
Now You See Me 2puts the magic of the original to shame.
Except this time around, theyre the ones being played.
How are the Four Horsemen even working without immediately being arrested after the events of the first film?
Theyve had to stay in hiding.
They havent had the big next job yet.
In the sequel, the Four Horsemen themselves have been tricked, seemingly by Thaddeus Bradley.
What are they facing in this new movie?
The fun part of this movie is the first one was all about a trick to the audience.
With this movie, it slips to the other side of the curtain.
We are with the Horsemen almost the whole time.
We get to see them being placed into a magic trick themselves.
They have to use their knowledge of magic to figure out how to get out of this magic box.
Their show is hijacked.
They get sent into a tube and arrive on the other end in China.
They have to figure out how to get out.
The first movie established that magic is real.
We dont necessarily do hocus pocus magic in this movie.
We tried to do a lot of it practically.
Youll physically see these things.
We created the contraptions and the things so we could actually shoot it on camera.
Hes really bad at magic, actually.
So Daniel Radcliffe in the movie is not good at magic.
When he does finally accomplish magic, his favorite part is to tell everyone how he did it.
Youre going to have to see that for yourself.
Ours is a very different world than Harry Potter.
But this is a fun movie.
We have a lot of references to a lot of things.
Ed Solomon, our writer, is amazing.
Theres a lot of pop culture references and things like that in our film.
Early on, Michael Caine let slip that Daniel Radcliffe is playing Tresslers son.
Do the Horsemen know this?
Ill neither confirm nor deny that report of Michael Caine saying that.
Michael Caine is obviously a part of this movie.
Theres definitely a revenge aspect to the movie.
Is that meant to be a direct homage to the past?
Or you may even see the events that sparked this whole thing since the first movie.
You may see what happened to Dylan as a kid and what went down.
It could go either way.
Thats a lot time to plan and have the long game go on and on.
What happens to the man when he actually accomplishes that?
Who is that person at that point?
Is he an FBI agent?
Is he a magician?
Is he part of the Eye?
Who is that person, and does he even know?
I think that journey, emotionally for me, really got me into this movie.
Is Rhodes more of the leader of the group now instead of J Daniel Atlas?
The movie starts with Rhodes as the leader of the group.
Its a couple years later.
He has brought them into the Eye.
Theyre following his lead, but there are definitely questions about his leadership.
There are definitely questions about his effectiveness.
Hes never been a part of their group.
Theres definitely some tension about who is the leader at the beginning of this movie.
How are you explaining away Henley?
You have to see the movie to see the explanation, but there is definitely an explanation for sure.
How different is Lula from Henley?
We definitely did not want to tread on Henley territory.
She was so great and we loved Henley.
She has studied them as well.
She gets dropped in here as someone who is eager.
She doesnt know how to lie.
She just speaks the truth.
She loves geek magic, which is basically like bloody, gutsy magic.
Her magic is very gross, I guess.
Its very bloody and things are always being cut off.
Anything you’re able to tell us of Sanaa Lathan or Jay Chous characters?
Sanaa comes in as the new head of the FBI.
She actually has a respect for Rhodes.
She looked up to who he was as a hero.
Jay Chou, what can I say?
One, hes the coolest dude on the planet.
Just being on set, he does real magic.
He can do anything on the fly.
Does the sequel tie into that at all?
We dont tie it to that moment.
Will the cards be back?
I pushed forNow You Dont, I really did.
If you call itNow You Dont, theres a confusion there.
If you sayNow You See Me: Now You Dont, its a really long, more confusing title.
There was a huge debate.
We went back and forth.
1 comment I get almost every day of my life since joining this movie.
Weve had meetings about it, but ultimately thats a studio call.
I think it was hard to communicate what this movie was in the first movie.
Its a heist movie with magicians!
They wanted to stick with that idea.
Now You See Me 2will hit theaters on June 10.
