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Chris Hemsworth trades Mjolnir for a machine gun and a body count in Netflix’s first look at “Extraction.”

Netflix dropped the official trailer for “Extraction” on April 7, 2020, and it wastes no time announcing itself as one of the biggest action swings the streamer has taken to date. Hemsworth plays Tyler Rake, a black-market mercenary hired to pull a kidnapped teenager out of the criminal underworld of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the footage is built almost entirely around close-quarters combat and vehicle carnage. The film arrives exclusively on Netflix on April 24, 2020.

• Sam Hargrave, a veteran stunt coordinator on Marvel projects including “Captain America: Civil War,” makes his feature directorial debut with “Extraction.”
• Joe Russo wrote the screenplay and produced with brother Anthony Russo under their AGBO banner, reuniting core “Avengers: Endgame” talent behind the camera.
• The story adapts the graphic novel “Ciudad,” and the project previously carried the working titles “Dhaka” and “Out of the Fire” before Netflix locked in “Extraction” in February 2020.

The Mission at the Center of the Film

Rake is enlisted to rescue Ovi Mahajan, the teenage son of an imprisoned international Indian drug lord, played by newcomer Rudhraksh Jaiswal. The job is straightforward on paper — get the boy out of Dhaka — until the extraction is compromised and Rake finds himself trapped in the city with no clean way home. What follows, according to the trailer, is less a rescue mission than a survival sprint through hostile territory, with Rake improvising his way past armed convoys, rooftop gunfights, and street-level ambushes.

Randeep Hooda and David Harbour round out a cast built to give Rake credible opposition and credible allies in equal measure. The Dhaka setting isn’t dressing — production shot on location across India and in Ban Pong, Thailand, wrapping principal photography in March 2019, giving the film a texture that trailers for studio-bound action movies rarely manage.

A Stunt Coordinator Steps Behind the Camera

Hargrave’s background matters here. He’s spent years choreographing the kind of hand-to-hand sequences that made “Civil War” a benchmark for the genre, and “Extraction” reads as his attempt to stretch that skill set across a full feature rather than a single set piece. The trailer leans hard into long, unbroken-feeling combat, the sort of thing you’d expect from someone who’s built entire careers on making violence look both brutal and legible on screen — for comparison, fans have already picked apart Chris Hemsworth’s craziest fight scene work elsewhere, and this looks like an attempt to top it.

The extraction goes wrong. The clock doesn’t stop.

The Russo Brothers’ Fingerprints

Joe Russo’s script and the Russos’ AGBO production credit put “Extraction” squarely in the lineage of the action filmmaking they perfected on “Avengers: Endgame,” just scaled down to a single mercenary instead of a universe of superheroes. That pedigree is part of why Netflix is treating this as a marquee release rather than a mid-tier genre title — it’s arriving at a moment when the platform has been stacking its action slate, alongside titles like “The Old Guard” combat training footage the streamer has also been pushing.

The screenplay’s roots trace back to “Ciudad,” the graphic novel by Ande Parks, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Fernando León González, and Eric Skillman, which explains the film’s ground-level, mercenary-for-hire framing rather than a more conventional spy-thriller setup.

Release Timing

“Extraction” lands on Netflix on April 24, 2020, part of a run of high-profile titles the streamer has been counting on to fill a release calendar upended by theater closures — a gap covered in detail in the rundown of the only big movies left that still may come out in 2020. For Netflix, a Hemsworth-led action film with Russo brothers’ backing is exactly the kind of counter-programming that doesn’t need a theatrical run to draw eyes.

Seventeen days separate the trailer drop from the April 24 premiere, which isn’t much runway for a film this dependent on stunt work landing right. Hargrave’s first directing credit is about to get judged by the same audience that’s spent a decade watching him choreograph fights for other people’s cameras.