Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/LOS ANGELESE: Actor Dave Bautista is getting back into the spy business with a sequel to the 2020 action-comedy My Spy set at Amazon.
Anna Faris, Craig Robinson, and Flula Borg have joined the cast of The Eternal City, which is set to start production this month.
This time around, Billy Barratt, Taeho K, Nicola Correia-Damude, Noah Dalton Danby, and Devere Rogers are also on board. Bautista reprises his role as CIA operative JJ, as do Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal, and Ken Jeong. The first film was originally conceived as a theatrical play but was ultimately released on Amazon Prime rather than in North American theatres.
According to ScreenEngine, My Spy was the third-most watched SVOD film of 2020. My Spy follows Bautista’s JJ, who is tasked with tracking down a young girl, Sophie (Coleman), and her widowed mother (Parisa Fitz-Henley), who are fleeing her international terrorist brother-in-law (Greg Bryk). Sophie forces JJ to use his spycraft for her benefit after discovering he is a spy.
In the sequel, a now-teenage Sophie (Coleman) enlists JJ to chaperone her school choir’s trip to Italy, where they become embroiled in an international terrorist plot. STXfilms and Madison Wells Studio are producing the project.
Chris Bender and Jake Weiner of Good Fear Content produced The Eternal City. Dogbone Entertainment’s Bautista and Jonathan Meisner will also produce, as will Madison Wells’ Segal, Robert Simonds, and Gigi Pritzker. Segal wrote the story, and Jon and Erich Hoeber wrote the script, which Segal revised.
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon and MGM Studios said that we were so delighted with the success of My Spy. It’s an honour to be reunited with Pete Segal, Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, the rest of the talented cast and filmmakers, and some fascinating newcomers.
