The action-packed thriller, released by streaming giant Netflix on December 13, appears to be inspired by the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan and its real-life despot, Berdymukhammedov.
State symbols of the fictional Turgistan bear a striking resemblance to those of Turkmenistan, while residents of Turgistan seem to speak Turkmen and also bear Turkmen names.
The unnamed billionaire, played by Hollywood star actor Ryan Reynolds, plots a coup to topple the Turgistan strongman, President Rovach Alimov, and install the president’s jailed brother, Murat, as the „country’s“ new leader.
To implement his plan the billionaire, who calls himself One, recruits five people: a spy, a hit man, a thief, a doctor, and a driver who all then use the pseudonyms Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six, respectively.
Six eventually gets killed and One hires a former sniper of an elite special operation force — who he names Seven.
After a series of events, the team hacks into Turgistan’s state TV channel during an address by the president and instead broadcasts a speech by Murat.
There’s also all that stuff in the epilogue. That was something I had to depend on also. It’s hard. It’s a really good question because what I was actually thinking last night is that you just can’t think about it. I think one of the things that I and director Jake Kasdan had to push myself to do was let my character evolve from the last movie, and not try and do what a lot of sequels do where it’s like “here’s a cartoon cardboard cutout of the first movie” and trying to think, well, what did I do that worked in the first movie. Instead, he said, “no, where’s your character now?” He’s aged a little bit. And then he was saying “trust me, don’t try and be funny”. I think he was really pushing me to honor a quiet sadness and I think he’d seen me do some heavy movies in the past since I’d done Jumanji and got excited. He wanted to see how vulnerable and fragile Spencer gets but with some hilarious stuff with Danny DeVito, and then the inhaler and all the normal Spencer stuff. I feel super lucky to be in it.
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