Jason Bateman is the ultimate Grinch in the trailer for upcoming Netflix Christmas film “Carry-On” — you know, if the Grinch’s M.O. was more mass murder than toy theft.
This holiday season we’re thankful for Taron Egerton, who plays a low-level TSO, which is a TSA agent, hand-selected by Bateman to be his forced accomplice. Bateman’s a domestic terrorist who is trying to get a bag through airport security and onto a plane; context clues tell us that it’s not just a water he purchased before the checkpoint.
The streaming movie’s official logline reads: “A young TSA agent fights to outsmart a mysterious traveler who blackmails him into letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.”
“Ethan, today is a day that you’re gonna remember for a very long time,” Bateman’s character tells Egerton’s. “But if you handle it right, you’re gonna have a chance to forget it.”
And oh yeah, his girlfriend, played by Sofia Carson, will live to see Christmas morning.
Bateman probably should have binged “The Kingsman” movies first — with Egerton, it ain’t going down like that. There’s “Mission: Impossible”-level sprinting and even a “Mission: Impossible”-esque bathroom fist fight between the two leads. What we’re saying is this film looks awesome. (Don’t tell theater owners we said that.)
“Carry-On” is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who also directed Liam Neeson flick “Non-Stop” — another airplane-based action movie (with another airline pun title). Yeah, he’s got a genre.
“Carry-On” is written by T.J. Fixman (the writer of the “Ratchet & Clank” video games) and Michael Green (“Logan,” “Blade Runner 2049”). It is produced by Dylan Clark; executive producers are Holly Bario, Brian Williams, Jaume Collet-Serra, Seth William Meier, and Scott Greenberg.
In addition to its cat-and-mouse A-listers (and Carson), “Carry-On” also stars Danielle Deadwyler, Logan Marshall-Green, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls, Gil Perez-Abraham, Tonatiuh, Curtiss Cook, Joe Williamson, and Josh Brener. You probably don’t have to watch the trailer to know that Norris plays a cop (of sorts).
Netflix released a teaser for “Carry-On” in October — watch that here.
“Carry-On” premieres December 13 on Netflix; watch the official trailer here:
