“Tonight, something clicked. For the first time in a really long time I felt alive again,” Cameron Diaz says to Jamie Foxx in the opening of the teaser trailer for Back in Action.
Netflix released the video on Thursday, Nov. 14.
The spy comedy stars Diaz and Foxx as a couple who retired from the CIA in order to start a family, years later, they are brought back into the world of espionage after their cover is blown.
“We were operatives for the CIA,” Foxx’s character explains to his children.
“Like Jason Bourne?” The son asks.
“Yeah, but we remember stuff,” Foxx’s character jokes.
The cast also includes Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts, and Rylan Jackson.
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Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) directed and co-wrote the project with Brendan O’Brien.
Gordon also produced the film along with with Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett for Chernin Entertainment; and Beau Bauman for Good One Productions.
Foxx not only stars in the action film, but he’s also an executive producer with Datari Turner, Brendan O’Brien, and Tim Lewis.
The upcoming project marks two things for its main cast — it’s the first film that Diaz has done since 2014’s Annie, and the film made headlines in April 2023, when production was temporarily halted after Foxx was hospitalized in Atlanta for an undisclosed illness. The actor has since recovered.
Back in Action will premiere Jan. 17, 2025 on Netflix.
Below is the teaser trailer:
