Now You See Me 2 (2016)

The Four Horsemen are back. Now with a new "Horseman" in tow, the crew is taking on a heist request issued to them from a tech giant with a connection to their past

Summary

-The Four Horsemen are asked by a tech giant, thought to be dead and with an obsession with magic, to pull off their most daring heist yet- steal back a computer chip with the power to unencrypt anything and expose information on anyone

Cast

-Jesse Eisenberg: J. Daniel Atlas

-Mark Ruffalo; Dylan Rhodes

-Woody Harrelson: Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney

-Dave Franco: Jack Wilder

-Daniel Radcliffe: Walter Mabry

-Lizzy Caplan: Lula

-Jay Chou: Li

-Sanaa Lathan: Deputy Director Natalie Austin

-Morgan Freeman: Thaddeus Bradley

-Michael Caine: Arthur Tressler

-Tsai Chin: Bu Bu

Did You Know?

-The only reason that Isla Fisher did not appear in this film is because she was pregnant at the time. There was a storyline stating that it didn't work out between Jesse Eisenberg's character and Isla Fisher's character. To replace Fisher, Lizzy Caplan was brought in and announced as the full time replacement in September 2016

-Over a year before this movie was even released, it was announced that there will be a Now You See Me 3. This new film is still in developmental limbo until everything can be worked out, including a storyline

-Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) says that, while at school, he messed around with magic. This is a reference to his role as the Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter. In all eight films, he played Harry Potter, who learned and used magic while at school

-In the scene where Lulu makes the bird fly out of a man's pants at the magic show in London, that man was Irish magician Keith Barry

-In the scene where Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) enters the jail cell of Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), music can be heard playing. The music fits the themes of revenge and vendettas, as the music is "The Revenge of Hell Boils in My Heart", from the Mozart opera The Magic Flute

-There is a specific reason why in the first film J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) had long hair and in this film he has short hair. Eisenberg had appeared in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). At the end of the movie, Lex Luthor's hair is shaved off, rendering him completely bald, when being transferred to prison

-This is the seventh film in which Morgan Freeman and Sir Michael Caine have worked together. They appeared in 2003's Freedom: A History of US, 2005's Batman Begins, 2008's The Dark Knight, 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, 2013's Now You See Me and 2017's Going in Style

-When the Horseman are discussing what to do for their final acts, they decide to meet up in Greenwich. Their acts do actually take place in that region of London. Greenwich Market is modeled to look like Covent Garden. The Cutty Sark is only a two minute walk from where Lizzy Caplan is doing her streetside act. The Old Royal Naval College is only a few minutes away from the area where the rain act is taking place. In the background of the rain act is the Royal Observatory, where the film ends

-When Lula mentions her early career, she frequently mentions pulling a rabbit out of a hat. This is a reference to Isla Fisher's character in the first film, 2013's Now You See Me

-One of the biggest plot points of this movie is The Eye, a secret society to which the Four Horsemen are proving themselves. The scenes showing the London skyline were important, as they prominently featured the large Ferris Wheel, known as the London Eye, which sits alongside the River Thames

-In the scene when the Horsemen are in Macau, and they walk into the magic shop, Atlas plays with a water trick using anti-gravity. This is foreshadowing his grand rain illusion later

-In 2013's Now You See me, the photos of Lionel Shrike were done by an uncredited Elias Koteas. Koteas is best known for playing Det. Alvin Olinsky on the television program Chicago P.D. Here, he was recast and portrayed by Richard Laing

-In the Macau magic shop, Li introduces himself as "not Bruce Lee". This is a reference to the film version of the TV show The Green Hornet. In the film, Jay Chou played Kato, the role originally played by Bruce Lee

-On the flight to Macau, the type of plane used is a Embraer Legacy 600. In the final scenes, the type of plane used is an Embraer Legacy 650

-In the scene where Atlas breaks into the security room and slaps a fake identification bracelet on the engineer, the name reads "Mark D. Stooge." "Mark" is someone who is the victim or target. "D" being another way of saying "the" and "Stooge" being the one who takes the fall. The initial "D" could also stand for Dupe, a word meaning someone who is easily deceived into serving a purpose for someone else