Anna Faris joins the sequel to My Spy

In 2020, Dave Bautista followed in the footsteps of Arnie, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in the big boy/pretty boy films with my spy, which became one of the first films to drop from its planned streaming release via Amazon as the pandemic started hitting theaters. He finished with flying colors and has now built a following with Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg among newcomers to My Spy: The Eternal City.

my spyIn case you somehow missed it, you saw Bautista as JJ, a portly but sensible CIA agent banished to relatively simple undercover work after a previous mission went awry.

However, he and tech-savvy Bobbi (Kristen Schaal) are unprepared for one of their surveillance targets, intelligent nine-year-old Sophie (Chloe Coleman), to notice their presence and blackmails JJ into letting her know. . she trades her, lest she blow your cover. Along the way, JJ bonds with Sophie and her mother, Kate, played by Parisa Fitz-Henley.

Director Pete Segal and screenwriters Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber returned for the sequel, in which now-teenage Sophie convinces JJ to accompany her school choir on a trip to Italy, where they both unknowingly end up being pawns for a terrorist international. plot that targets CIA chief David Kim (Ken Jeong, who will return from the first film) and his son, Collin, who is also Sophie’s best friend.

With Billy Barratt and Taeho K also among the new recruits with Nicola Correia-Damude, Noah Dalton Danby and Devere Rogers among the returning cast list, the film is expected to shoot this month and will stream, like the original, via Prime Video. .