On the 24th of last month, the action movie 'Extraction' was released on the online viewing service 'Netflix'. This is about Hollywood actor Chris Hemsworth playing a role as a mercenary from a special forces to rescue a teenage boy kidnapped in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Chris Hemsworth's uncle.

As it was Netflix's original, it was released only to Netflix without opening the theater. The reactions of domestic and foreign action movie fans are hot. There are already expectations for the sequel. If Corona 19 becomes silent, it will be produced around the next year, and it is even analyzed that it will be released by 2022.
In ‘Extraction’, the so-called one take action scene, which continues in a single shooting for 12 minutes, attracts great attention. Director Sam Hargrave is from the Stunt Coordinator of the Marvel series, including The Avengers: End Game. Some people feel dizzy because of the camera shake, but the director who can write this action sequence seems to be in the hands.

However, today we are going to look at the process of Netflix participating in the planning and production of this film rather than shooting one take. In the case of the recent Korean movie 'Time of Hunting', Netflix decided to purchase it after the work was completed. However, the negotiations began at the previous stage. I looked at the process.
First of all, this film is different from the net production cost. It is about 65 million dollars and around 750 billion won of our money (based on the exchange rate in 2019, which was the main production period). It is estimated that only Hemsworth's contribution is around 15 billion won. It is the highest level of Netflix original movies. Netflix predicts that up to 90 million people worldwide will be watching a month after the movie is released. However, this is difficult to predict at the investment stage. There must have been another criterion for investment.

It was Anthony Russo and Brother Joe Russo who first planned this film. These are the characters who made numerous Marvel movies, such as The Avengers: The End Game. His younger brother, Joe Rousseau, was thinking about the story of 'Extraction' for more than 10 years. In 2014, along with famous cartoonist & Parks, he first published a comic book. This is the movie's original Ciudad (Ciudad / image below). In the Netflix movie, the location of the rescue operation is in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but in the comic book it is Ciudad, the city of Paraguay.
Joe Russo sends the script of the extract to Hemsworth and Hagrav who were filming the Avengers: End Game at the end of 2017. And in early 2018, they established their own film production company, 'ABGO Film'. By this time, the production package of the extraction (director, actor, staff, budget, etc.) will be created. August 2018 is the first news of the production of the exhibition. Brother Rousseau set up a set in Thailand and India to film the movie "Extraction" to be released on Netflix. After all, it is estimated that the original supply contract was reached around this time. It was about two years before the release in April 2020. The shooting period was from November 2018 to March 2019, and it was only 4 months.

In order to reduce production costs, most of the regions, particularly Indian star actors, were hired outside of Hemsworth. Much of the filming was done in India. That's why it is said that the extraction is actually targeting the Indian market. Online viewing services are booming in India thanks to cheap data rates. Netflix is ​​fiercely competing with Hulu for cheap subscription fees and Amazon Prime, which has secured many Indian films.

Looking at Netflix's investment process, we can predict the size and judgment criteria for our films.
① Select investment films based on subscribers' big data, but make use of the popularity of production packages such as directors and actors.
② The original work that can be quickly progressed within 2 years from planning-script-shooting-post-production. 
③ Choose a method that fills the content of a language or genre that Netflix lacks. 
※ Drama investment standards may be different.

Netflix is ​​more interested in drama in our country. However, it is expected that interest in movies will increase in the future. If a good screenplay or webtoon based on the current movie market is selected, it seems that Netflix will be released within 2 years, or about 2022. Personally, I think our orthodox historical drama can be selected from the standard. This is because our historical dramas are popular in Asian markets such as Japan, but the content is insufficient. What are your expectations?