A trailer has been released for Cameron Diaz’s comeback vehicle, “Back in Action.” The film is set to stream on January 17 via Netflix.
The film follows two former CIA spies who retire to start a family, but the married couple — played by Diaz and Jamie Foxx — soon find themselves dragged back into the world of espionage when their identities are leaked.
In June 2022, it was reported that Diaz was coming out of retirement for Seth Gordon’s “Back in Action.” The film is also set to star Andrew Scott, Glenn Close and Kyle Chandler. Foxx actually persuaded Diaz to come out of retirement to make her first film since 2014, telling ET that he asked her, "'Do you wanna have some fun? Just have some fun!' And I think that's what brought her to it...we're so happy that it's happening and looking forward to it".
“Fun” is the last word I’d use to describe production of “Back in Action.”
Shooting on the film wrapped in April 2023. The DailyMail summarized it best, detailing all the disruptions, by characterizing the movie as “cursed.” An assortment of bad omens inflicted the shooting of “Back in Action,” including an on-set medical emergency, multiple on-set meltdowns, firings, and even total disruption of principle photography due to the discovery of a WW2 bomb.
The bad luck didn’t end there. With just two weeks left to shoot, Foxx was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical emergency, and body doubles were used in place of him to film the remaining scenes. He never came back. We’re still not sure what health issues he had, but they were severe enough for his family to say, in a statement, that they were “praying,” but “expecting the worst.”
Foxx, miraculously, got out of his health scare and was released from hospital a few months later. There had been rumors that the film was never completed, but the good news is that they managed to finish it and it will now be streaming in two months’ time.
As for Diaz, as production wrapped on “Back in Action,” she signed up for her another role, in Jonah Hill’s “Outcome,” alongside co-lead Keanu Reeves — expect a 2025 release for that film as well.