Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman Face Off in First “Carry-On” Teaser

October 16, 2024

The tense first teaser for Netflix’s Carry-On has arrived, revealing the new thriller from director Jaume Collet-Serra starring Taron Egerton as Ethan, a TSA agent who’s dropped into a dangerous game by a mysterious passenger who turns out to be a terrorist. That passenger is played by Jason Bateman, a man who knows a thing or two about tense thrillers after delivering four seasons of his nervy Netflix series Ozark. While Bateman wasn’t exactly a good guy in Ozark (by the end of the series, there were few “good guys” to be found), it’s fun to see him play an out-and-out villain here.

The gist of Carry-On is that Bateman’s nefarious traveler blackmails Ethan into letting a deadly package onto a flight that could turn the airport into a massive crime scene. The script comes from Michael Green and T.J. Fixman. Green has a lengthy list of successful writing credits, including James Mangold’s beloved 2017 film Logan and Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 Blade Runner: 2049. Fixman was a successful video game writer who worked on the critically acclaimed animated film Rachet & Clank.

Carry-On‘s cast includes Danielle Deadwyler, Dean Norris, Sofia Carson, and Theo Rossi. Collet-Serra has a long resume of thrillers and chillers, from 2005’s House of Wax and 2009’s Orphan to his underrated Blake Lively-versus-a-shark 2016 thriller The Shallows. More recently, he’s worked on much larger films like 2021’s Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt and 2022’s Black Adam, again with Johnson.

Check out the trailer below. Carry-On arrives on Netflix on December 13.