Netflix has ordered an exciting series action fans will not want to miss

Netflix is good with action series and movies. In fact, the streamer appears to have made high-quality ones of that genre more of a priority than medical dramas. Netflix won't be releasing its first English-language one until April 3, when Pulse comes out. That means, in a backward way, that the news you are about to read is a great thing.

This week, your favorite streamer announced that it has ordered a new series called Extraction. If that name sounds familiar, it is because there have been two films called that. They starred Chris Hemsworth as an Australian black ops mercenary who takes on a mission to save an Indian drug lord's kidnapped son in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Make sense? Maybe, but it was fun.

Hemsworth won't be featured in the new series. The lead will be played by Frenchman Omar Sy. If you haven't seen the series Lupin (and you should because it is fantastic), in which Sy starred and played Assane Diop, then you have likely seen him in many other things, and you didn't know it.

Omar Sy set to star in series adaptation of Netflix's Extraction films

Sy has been in the recent Jurassic World films, Burnt, and many other projects. In each, he has a charisma that bounces off the screen. He also knows how to play well in action films and series, so this should be a natural role for him.

Sy will play a mercenary who is tasked with saving hostages in Libya. The series will have an eight-episode arc, but there is no known date for its release. We can assume that will come in 2026, at the earliest. The project is still in the pre-production stages.

There is even better news in the fact that the Russos, Anthony and Joe, will be back as executive producers of the series, just as they were on the Extraction films that Netflix released. No other cast has yet been announced, and while Hemsworth is not expected to play a key role, one can hope that he at least has a cameo.

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