Taron Egerton gets his ‘Die Hard’ with the Christmas thriller ‘Carry-On’ trailer

No one likes to be at the airport during the holidays. It’s crowded, it’s chaotic, and things go wrong. But you’ve never had anything happen like what Taron Egerton goes through in “Carry-On,” a holiday thriller coming to Netflix next month and got a trailer on Tuesday. 

In “Carry-On,” Egerton plays a TSA agent who’s working on Christmas Eve. He gets blackmailed into letting a mysterious man (Jason Bateman) slip a dangerous package onto a flight and then has to try to stop what he’s set in motion before it’s too late. It’s a Christmas action movie that’s Netflix’s version of “Die Hard” (or well, at least its holiday-themed sequel that is also set at an airport on Christmas Eve, “Die Hard 2”). 

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The trailer starts with funny, light-hearted stuff about the minor annoyances of working at the airport while “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” plays. Then it switches gears when Egerton’s Ethan Kopek gets a text from a restricted number ordering to put a left-behind wireless headphone in his ear. The familiar-to-us voice on the other end tells him how things will go. Someone will get into Ethan’s security line with a certain suitcase, and Ethan will make sure they get through without incident — or else. It’s like it’s the scariest episode of “Smartless” ever. But then Ethan, an everyman hero who happens to look like Taron Egerton, fights back, and LAX turns into the site of a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game.  

In addition to Egerton and Bateman, the cast includes Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Sinqua Walls, Logan Marshall-Green, Theo Rossi, Josh Brener, and Dean Norris. It’s directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who previously directed a pair of single-location action thrillers starring Liam Neeson, “Non-Stop” (on a plane) and “The Commuter” (on a train). The script is by T.J. Fixman. 

“Carry-On” streams on Netflix on Dec. 13. 

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