Now You See Me

Sequel to start filming this September

Now You See Me, the sequel, is to begin filming in September this year.Locations are thought to  be in the U.S, Europe and Asia. Although a script is yet to be penned, there is confirmation the four main characters; Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco are all set to return. As is the director Louis Leterrier. With the success of the first film, Lionsgate wants to build on this and say it could become a franchise. With all the recent swathe of remakes, it is invigorating to see a change. Taking over $293m worldwide it is safe to say the $73m budget was well used.

Eisenberg may have a scheduling problem, given his commitment to make Batman Vs Superman, whose shoot is likely to overlap.

Louis Leterrier recently gave an interview about the sequel:

We're actively working on the sequel to Now You See Me, so that is happening. We're writing it, and it's pretty fun. We had such a great time doing that, and we loved the characters.

Our biggest problem now is that we have too many great ideas. We're sort of saying, 'What if he would do that? That would be amazing, I want to see this, I want to see that.'

We want it to be intense and as twisty as the first one, but also learn more about the characters and go deeper, what a great sequel should do. That's going to take not too long, but enough so, just like in the first one, it's perfectly crafted.