Murder Mystery 2: a great French actress joins the sequel to the Netflix film

Murder Mystery: the sequel is coming

Arriving on Netflix on June 14, 2019, the comedy Murder Mystery was a resounding success. Indeed, the film was simply most viewed platform in 2019. Worn by Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, the feature film directed by Kyle Newacheck followed an American couple on holiday, who found themselves in spite of themselves embroiled in a murder case. At their side, the French actor Dany Boon camped the inspector responsible for carrying out the investigation.

Faced with this resounding success, Netflix has decided to offer a sequel to Murder Mystery, still worn by the Aniston / Sandler duowho are also co-producing this second opus.

And after Dany Boon, it’s another French star who will give them the answer. Indeed, as we learn varietyMélanie Laurent is announced in the casting of this Murder Mystery 2. This is the third Netflix film in which the French actress participates after 6 Underground and Oxygen.

In addition to Mélanie Laurent, are also added to the cast Mark Strong and Jodie Turner-Smith.

Filming planned in Paris

If we don’t yet know the details of the script for this new film, we already know that it will be partly shot in Paris. Indeed, still in the columns of variety, we learn that shooting will begin in early February in the French capital. And the production saw big. Thus, according to the producer Raphaël Benoliel, the logistics will be close to a shooting of Impossible mission :

We already have 350 members expected, and only for the second film crew. When the main cast arrives, the team will approach that of a Mission Impossible. We are talking about a huge production. Filming will last six weeks, half of which will be in the studio.

Netflix hasn’t announced a release date yet, but it should be late 2022 or early 2023.