Sam Hargrave knew the pressure was on once the official numbers had been crunched. Extraction, the first movie he’d ever directed, had bulldozed its way onto Netflix’s all-time most-streamed original films list, with almost 100 million households tuning in during its first 28 days on the platform.
With an extraordinary 231 million hours streamed in that timeframe, Extraction has held seventh spot on that list ever since. So, when pre-production began on its sequel, creatively titled Extraction 2, Hargrave knew there was only one way to exceed the original: by going bigger and bolder.
