This text incorporates spoilers for Now You See Me: Now You Don't.

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is full of surprising twist after surprising twist, however the greatest reveal is how the movie's emotional dying isn't a trick in any respect.

The magical heist trilogy options a number of shock returns, but it surely's the surprising dying of Thaddeus (Morgan Freeman), who’s shot by French police working for villain Veronika Vanderberg (Rosamund Pike), that packs the most important punch, because it seems to be actual, not one other phantasm.

"Oh my God, I'm going to get emotional," Isla Fisher, who performs escapologist Henley Reeves, tells Leisure Weekly. "That was a very exhausting scene to movie. I'm simply an emotional individual anyway, and watching Morgan Freeman, who's such an unimaginable actor, die in such a practical means, although we shot it for 3 days, I simply couldn't cease crying. It was simply so lovely and tragic. I hope it's a magic trick and he comes again within the subsequent one and so they say that it was all a stunt."

Regardless of Fisher's hope, Now You See Me: Now You Don't director Ruben Fleischer confirms to EW that Thaddeus is really gone. However that doesn't imply the filmmaker by no means thought-about utilizing the capturing as a possibility for one more twist.

"We considered it, but it surely felt like perhaps it could undermine the reason for the Horsemen," Fleischer explains. "As a result of we toyed with the concept, perhaps on the finish he's taking part in along with his grandchildren doing a magic trick or one thing like that. However we selected to not, simply to permit for Veronika actually to be as dangerous as she's perceived. Morgan felt prefer it was the appropriate factor to do, so I wouldn't have accomplished it if he felt in any other case."

Now You See Me: Now You Don't reunites all 4 authentic Horsemen — Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Fisher — together with three newcomers — Justice Smith, Ariana Greenblatt, and Dominic Sessa — for a mission they thought was given to them by Dylan (Mark Ruffalo), the chief of the key underground group often known as the Eye, to take down the evil Vanderberg heiress. Nevertheless, the Horsemen be taught on the finish that Charlie (Smith) had been tricking them from the start. It seems, he's Veronika's presumed-dead half-brother, and was utilizing the Horsemen to assist expose her as a assassin who had been serving to Nazis launder cash. With Veronika out of the way in which, he'd stand to inherit the Vanderberg fortune.

That massive third-act twist is what the director was most excited to convey to life in his first time directing a Now You See Me movie.

"From the very onset of my involvement with this movie, I felt passionately that the film as a complete has to work as a magic trick," Fleischer says. "It's not sufficient simply to have magic tips all through the movie, however within the spirit of the Traditional Suspects or the Sixth Sense, there's an enormous reveal within the third act that may actually, hopefully astound audiences."

Nevertheless, regardless of the flashy reveal of Charlie's id, Fleischer acknowledges that Thaddeus' dying earlier within the film, which resulted from this scheme, could also be troublesome for some audiences to just accept.

"That was a tricky one, but it surely felt like the appropriate factor to do with the intention to give the film actual stakes," the filmmaker explains. "He's so beloved, and if Veronika Vandenberg goes to take out Morgan Freeman, arguably one of the vital beloved movie actors of all time, then it could have an actual weight to it. That scene with Woody and Rosamund, the place they're in jail and he's clearly actually upset and he confronts her, is without doubt one of the strongest and definitely dramatic scenes within the film, and it solely exists as a result of we made the choice to kill off Thaddeus, which I feel is de facto exhausting for audiences."

Fleischer admits, "You don't go to a Now You See Me film anticipating there to be anybody dying. It was actually difficult, however Morgan completely was on board with it and thought it was the appropriate factor to do and introduced his expertise to it. I imply, I burst into tears watching him carry out that as a result of it was so emotionally evocative. He is sort of a grandfather to all of us in a means, and it was actually highly effective seeing him carry out that."

Whereas Thaddeus' dying was "a solemn day on set," in line with Fleischer, the remainder of filming had rather more constructive vibes. Particularly because the film introduced again Lizzy Caplan's Lula Could from Now You See Me 2 (when she stuffed in for Fisher, who exited the movie resulting from her real-life being pregnant). The director says uniting each Lula and Henley onscreen collectively was "righting the wrongs of the previous" for the franchise.

"I’m so glad that we had been capable of function each ladies as a result of they're each unimaginable actors and each so humorous and so gifted," Fleischer says.

Lula returns as a shock when two of the Horsemen are arrested by French police, and he or she levels a hilarious jailbreak within the precinct. Later, when all of the Horsemen are reunited, J. Daniel Atlas (Eisenberg) is shocked to be taught that Henley and Lula already know one another.

"I really like that second when Jesse's character says, 'You two knew one another?' They usually're like, 'Yeah, what number of feminine magicians do you suppose there are on the earth? And the truth that there's three of us within the room proper now could be type of blowing my thoughts,'" Fleischer says. "It actually simply type of calls out the form of male-dominated magic world, but in addition I feel it offers them energy and that they’ve a relationship unbiased of the Horsemen, which nobody else was anticipating."

Fisher reveals that the 2 characters having a friendship previous to this film was really her concept.

"I stated, 'There's no means that I wouldn't know her if she's a magician and I'm a magician, and it must be that when my character Henley left, that I ought to have stated use Lula as a result of I can't come on the highway,'" Fisher says. "And that was simply a lot enjoyable. Lizzy and I had labored collectively on Bachelorette, and so clearly, now we have a complete chortle. It was fairly enjoyable."

The director additionally cherished including Greenblatt's new character, June, to kind a feminine magician trio inside the expanded Horsemen crew.

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"Hopefully, if we're fortunate sufficient to get to make one other Now You See Me film, we are able to lean into that extra," Fleischer says. "It felt proper to only acknowledge the truth that there's three super-strong, highly effective feminine magicians in our film."

The filmmaker reveals he's already exhausting at work on making Now You See Me 4, though it's nonetheless within the very early levels.

"We’ve a very, actually enjoyable journey plan for them that we're nonetheless within the writing course of on," Fleischer says. "However it should proceed the theme of globetrotting magical adventures involving some heists and a few performances, and persevering with to inform the story of those eight nice magicians."

The ultimate scene of Now You See Me 3 reveals a holographic message from Dylan — for actual, this time — despatched to the eight Horsemen, revealing that he was by no means locked up in a Russian jail after their failed mission 10 years prior. He simply led the unique Horsemen to consider one thing that wasn't true to convey them again collectively and to provoke the brand new trio of younger magicians into the Eye. He additionally revealed a brand new mission for all of them: "You thought your work was accomplished? You're simply getting began."

Fleischer reveals that Ruffalo's Dylan "will play a much bigger function within the subsequent journey, pending Mark Ruffalo's schedule."

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"Sadly, he's a really busy man, and so they might or will not be making seven extra Avengers films, so we'll see about Mark Ruffalo's availability," he provides with amusing. "However my hope for the film would definitely be to have extra Dylan within the movie. I'm going to let you know a bit secret, which is that initially he wasn't even going to be on this film as a result of he wasn't obtainable in any respect throughout our principal pictures."

Due to the movie present process re-shoots over the summer season, the director was ready so as to add Ruffalo into the film by way of hologram.

"Fortunately, at the moment, he was obtainable to be shot on greenscreen unbiased of our shoot, however nonetheless, we managed to get him in there," Fleischer says. "Clearly, we might have most popular him to be knocking on the door and coming into the scene [at the end in person], however he’s a busy man, and the hologram model of Dylan was one which I used to be more than pleased to just accept."

Now that's some actual Hollywood magic.

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