Netflix has released a first-look scene from its action/comedy Red Notice.
The clip premiered as part of TUDUM, a virtual event to promote the streaming giant's many upcoming exclusive series and films. Red Notice stars Dwayne Johnson as John Hartley, an FBI Special Agent who joins forces with a con artist named Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds) to take down Sarah Black (Gal Gadot), the world's most notorious art thief.
Red Notice marks Johnson's third movie with writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber after the 2016 action/comedy Central Intelligence and 2018's Skyscraper, an action movie in which Johnson's protagonist scales the tallest skyscraper in the world to rescue his family from the terrorists who've kidnapped them and set the building on fire. In keeping with the trend where each of their collaborations is bigger than the one before it, Red Notice is a globe-trotting adventure budgeted at $160-200 million, making it one of Netflix's largest film investments to date.
If anything, that price tag only rose higher after production halted in response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns in March 2020 and resumed six months later under the pandemic-era health and safety protocols. Of course, unlike non-streaming tentpoles, Red Notice's success won't be measured in terms of box office returns but with respect to its Netflix viewership. As Scott Stuber, the head of Netflix's original films division, explained earlier this year, the company's original blockbusters need to draw 70 million or more views to qualify as a hit.
No strangers to the blockbuster arena, Johnson, Gadot and Reynolds have all anchored popular tentpoles in the past, including films like Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Wonder Woman and Deadpool, respectively. Johnson and Gadot also starred opposite one another in the fifth and sixth Fast & Furious movies, with Reynolds making a brief appearance opposite Johnson in the franchise's first spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw. Johnson has since repaid the favor by making a vocal cameo in Reynolds' recent blockbuster hit Free Guy.
Out of the three, only Reynolds collaborated with Netflix before Red Notice. He starred in the streamer's 2019 release 6 Underground, a Michael Bay-directed action/thriller that received generally negative reviews. And while Stuber referred to it as a "nice hit," he confirmed Netflix is passing on a 6 Underground sequel.
Red Notice begins streaming Nov. 12 on Netflix.
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