Isla Fisher just pulled off the most impressive magic trick — after 12 years, she’s reappeared in the Now You See Me franchise.
The first Now You See Me: Now You Don’t trailer reunites Fisher with the rest of the original Four Horsemen — Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Dave Franco — after she sat out of the magic heist sequel, Now You See Me 2. The third movie in the franchise, directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Uncharted), also brings back Mark Ruffalo and Morgan Freeman, and introduces new cast members Rosamund Pike, Ariana Greenblatt, Dominic Sessa, and Justice Smith.
In the trailer, below, Eisenberg’s J. Daniel Atlas meets with a team of young magicians (Greenblatt, Sessa, and Smith) to recruit them for a trick “bigger and better than anything you’ve ever seen.”
His old team? They’re “dead” to him, he says.
The new team of four set out to steal a valuable “heart diamond” from a wealthy, corrupt family. But of course, they need backup. Franco, Harrelson, and Fisher pop up to help, and they all join forces with Freeman.
Now You See Me began in 2013 with the first movie centered on the foursome of criminals who use their elaborate stage illusions to pull off major heists and, in true Robin Hood fashion, give the stolen money to people who need it.
Directed by Louis Leterrier, that film introduced Ruffalo’s FBI agent Dylan Rhodes, who pretended to be hunting the Four Horsemen but was actually their mysterious benefactor/mastermind the entire time. Freeman starred as Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who profited by outing other magicians’ tricks.
Dylan used the Horsemen to get his revenge on Thaddeus for ruining his late father’s career and ultimately causing his death. By the end of the first movie, the Horsemen were welcomed into the mysterious magician society the Eye.
The second installment, 2016’s Now You See Me 2, was directed by Jon M. Chu, picked up 18 months after the events of the first film. Fisher did not return, and Lizzy Caplan was cast as a new member of the Four Horseman in her absence.
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The magicians were now fugitives after escaping the FBI, and dealt with the consequences of stealing from Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) in the first movie, as his son Walter (Daniel Radcliffe) exposed their illusions, working with Merritt’s (Harrelson) twin brother.
The second movie also featured a major twist when Dylan and the Horsemen learned that the imprisoned Thaddeus is actually the leader of the Eye, and that he had only pretended to be Dylan’s father’s rival. Thaddeus then chose Dylan to be his successor as leader of the Eye.
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t magically appears in theaters Nov. 14.
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