Now You See Me 2 shows its hand in new trailer

There’s a new trailer for Now You See Me 2, one that conjures images and plot points from Ocean’s Twelve. The quintet that stole from the rich to give to the poor—and also managed to pull off the far more feasible feat of incarcerating a black man (Morgan Freeman)—in the first movie has been brought out of retirement by a megalomaniacal individual (Daniel Radcliffe, dressed as Sonny Crockett).

Like Danny Ocean’s squad before them, the Four Horsemen and their Svengali (Mark Ruffalo) are forced to pull off a more impossible heist at the behest of Radcliffe’s tech prodigy, who appears to be in cahoots with Freeman and Michael Caine’s characters. We’d argue that the Horsemen’s greatest trick was not ending up in jail despite confessing to the grandest larceny in the first film, though they lost Isla Fisher along the way. But it’s cool, because Lizzy Caplan’s here to release her doves (that’s not a euphemism for anything).

Now You See Me 2 will hit theaters on June 10.

 
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