Back in 2020, Dave Bautista followed in the big dude/cute kid film footsteps of Arnie, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson with My Spy, which became one of the first films to ditch its planned release for streaming via Amazon as the pandemic began to impact cinemas. It ended up successful, and has now spawned a follow-up with Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg among the newcomers for My Spy: The Eternal City.
My Spy, in case it somehow passed you by, saw Bautista as JJ, a hulking-yet-sensitive CIA agent banished to a relatively straightforward undercover gig after a previous mission ends badly.
Yet he and tech specialist Bobbi (Kristen Schaal) aren't prepared for one of their surveillance targets — savvy nine-year-old Sophie (Chloe Coleman) — to catch on to their presence and blackmail JJ into teaching her spy craft, lest she blows their cover. Along the way, JJ bonds with Sophie and her mother, Kate, played by Parisa Fitz-Henley.
Director Pete Segal and writers Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are back for the sequel, in which a now teenage Sophie persuades JJ to chaperone her school choir trip to Italy where they both unwittingly end up pawns in an international terrorist plot targeting CIA chief David Kim (Ken Jeong, who will return from the first movie) and his son, Collin – who’s 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 on the list of returning actors, the film should be shooting this month and will stream, like the original, via Prime Video.