Chris Hemsworth’s Netflix Action Sequel's Filming Milestone Sets Up One Of The Streamer's Biggest Events

Published Nov 11, 2026, 6:09 PM EST Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Chris Hemsworth is coming back to Netflix with a long-awaited movie, and this action thriller's latest filming milestone sets the stage for what should be one of the biggest events on the streamer yet. Netflix has had a lot of success with action movies and TV shows over the years. When it comes to Netflix's 2026 releases, quite a few of the streamer's hits came from the action and crime departments. That includes films like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's The Rip, Alan Ritchson's War Machine, Taron Egerton's Apex, and many more. In parallel to that, Hemsworth's high-profile list of movies has made the actor someone audiences know they can turn to for standout performances in the action department. Hemsworth is famously the actor behind Thor, being part of many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's best movies. That said, Hemsworth's action credentials extend well beyond the MCU, with one of his best performances to date being a role that played against type, aka the villain Dementus in the post-apocalytic Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which allowed Hemsworth to build a character who was both funny and frightening. In 2026, his crime thriller with MCU co-star Mark Ruffalo, Crime 101, became a streaming hit after arriving on Prime Video. Now all the attention when it comes to action thrillers starring Hemsworth has turned to a different streaming service, as the upcoming Extraction 3 is set to bring back one of Netflix's most popular movie franchises. After months with few updates on the status of the long-awaited sequel, given Extraction 2 was released in 2023, a massive filming update on the threequel could not have been more exciting. Image via Netflix On his Instagram account in late October, Hemsworth confirmed that Extraction 3 filming had wrapped, with the actor celebrating the time he spent shooting the R-rated thriller in Thailand. The movie entered production in July, thus finishing that stage only three months later. Extraction 3's release date has yet to be confirmed by Netflix, but this latest update is exciting, as the franchise is already on a longer gap than the one between the first two Extraction movies, which came down to three years. With Extraction 3 not releasing in 2026, the closest it can be ready for is 2027, making it a 4-year gap. Scratch & Peek Identify the cover art while scratching off as little foil as possible. Extraction 3's Netflix release, being closer than ever, adds to a slate of excitement, as the action thriller movie franchise is also set to expand in the future into a full-on shared universe. Besides Hemsworth's planned return as Tyler Rake, a South Korean spin-off movie, Tygo, which stars Marvel's Eternals actor Don Lee, The White Lotus' Lisa, and Squid Game's Lee Jin-wook, finished filming earlier this year, before production on Extraction 3 had even started. Additionally, the franchise is also expanding with a TV show, Mercenary: An Extraction Series, led by Lupin's Omar Sy, with Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones), Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman), and more. Image via Netflix Hemsworth's action franchise has proven itself a juggernaut for Netflix, with both of its movies so far having been part of Netflix's Top 10 movies of all time back when the second film was released in 2023. The original Extraction accumulated 135.7 million views on its first 91 days on Netflix, while Extraction 2 came in a little lower at 134.9 million views, which was still quite solid. Extraction 3 could be the biggest entry in the franchise yet, as not only will it get a natural boost as a trilogy finale, but it will come after Hemsworth's Thor return in Avengers: Doomsday. With Thor front and center in the Marvel movie's trailers thus far, Hemsworth is bound to enter 2027 as one of the most popular stars in Hollywood, and Netflix's Extraction 3 can make the most of it if the action thriller is released between December's Doomsday and next year's Avengers: Secret Wars. Additionally, Extraction 2 surpassed the original in terms of fight choreography, creative set pieces, and more. The action got better, as shown by the massive 21-minute prison sequence shot as a oner, an intricate, violent, and integral part of the movie. Extraction 3 is expected to be the biggest yet, and this new filming update is exciting. Director Sam Hargrave Writers David Weil Producers Anthony Russo, Eric Gitter, Joe Russo, Patrick Newall, Peter Schwerin, Chris Hemsworth, Michael Disco, Ben Grayson, Angela Russo-Otstot Cast Golshifteh Farahani Nik Khan