Netflix is making a sequel to 'Extraction,' which the streamer says is pacing to be its biggest movie ever

• "Avengers: Endgame" codirector Joe Russo, who wrote the screenplay for "Extraction," has closed a deal to write the sequel.
• Russo told Deadline "we're not committing yet to whether that story goes forward, or backward in time."
• Netflix is projecting "Extraction" to be its biggest movie premiere ever with 90 million households watching in the first four weeks of release.
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Netflix's new action movie "Extraction," starring Chris Hemsworth, is a smash hit, and a sequel is already in the works.

"Avengers: Endgame" codirector Joe Russo, who wrote the screenplay for "Extraction," is writing the sequel. The hope is that director Sam Hargrave and Hemsworth will return, though a deal isn't in place yet, according to Deadline.

"The deal is closed for me to write 'Extraction 2,' and we are in the formative stages of what the story can be," Russo told Deadline. "We're not committing yet to whether that story goes forward, or backward in time. We left a big loose ending that leaves question marks for the audience."

"Extraction," in which Hemsworth plays a mercenary tasked with rescuing a kidnapped child, debuted on Netflix on April 24. The streaming giant said on Friday that the movie was pacing to be its biggest movie premiere ever with a projected 90 million households watching in the first four weeks of release.

The movie hasn't been quite as big of a hit with critics, but has a respectable 68% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. Some reviews were harsher than others. The AV Club called it "a glorified direct-to-video action movie — albeit one that lacks the momentum and efficiency that defines the best entries in the DTV category."

But others praised it as an entertaining popcorn movie. Variety wrote: "Check your brain going in. But if the only exercise you're getting is from the couch to the kitchen these days, it's liable to get your heart racing just a little, and that's not a bad thing."