Somehow, it’s been almost a decade since our favourite band of criminally talented magicians, The Four Horsemen, last rode out in Jon M. Chu’s 2016 heist sequel Now You See Me 2. Now, in the year of our Lord 2025, Venom and Uncharted director has brought the band — J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) — back together for ingeniously titled threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. And for their next trick, the Horsemen are enlisting a new generation of illusionists (Dominic Sessa! Ariana Greenblatt! Justice Smith!) to nab a whopping diamond and help take down a Rosamund Pike led criminal enterprise using the power of magic. And you can check out the splendidly silly, spellbinding trailer below:
“It is very good to be back!” declares Eisenberg’s rizz wizard J. Daniel Atlas at the top of this flashy first trailer for Fleischer’s film. Only it’s not actually Atlas, but rather a bright young illusionist on the block played by The Holdovers breakout Sessa, who’s been sharing the vacated Horsemen’s spotlight with fellow magicians Greenblatt and Smith in their absence. But before you can say “Abracadabra!”, the real Atlas is back, he’s recruiting the newbies to pinch a stolen gem from Rosamund Pike (“Relax! Diamonds are forever,” quips Atlas as a whopping diamond materialises in his hand at a swanky function), and Horsemen old and new (alongside Morgan Freeman’s Thaddeus Bradley) find themselves joining forces to quick-change, sleight-of-hand, and Houdini themselves into — and out of — trouble. “Eight magicians against a worldwide criminal network,” succinctly summates Avengers: Infinity War and Ahsoka breakout Greenblatt. “I like our chances.”
Promising a Zombieland reunion for director Fleischer, co-stars Harrelson and Eisenberg, and writers Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese, a whole bunch of absolutely insane and almost certainly impossible magic-based set pieces, and one of the most absurdly stacked casts of the year, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is primed to prove that three really is the magic number when the movie hits cinemas on 14 November. Plus, with Now You See Me 4 already in the works (Now You See Me: 4bracadabra, anyone?), you’ve got to assume Fleischer has got some serious tricks up his sleeve with this one. Wizard!
