Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek will reprise their roles.
Patrick Hughes, who wrote the first film, will return to direct the second, based on a screenplay by Tom O’Connor.
The sequel follows bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds), who is enlisted by hitman Darius (Jackson) and his wife Sonia (Hayek) to join them on a mission along the Amalfi Coast.
Freeman was last seen on the big screen in Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and will next appear in Angel Has Fallen, a sequel to 2013 action thriller Olympus Has Fallen.
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