Now You See Me 3 has added a new face to its cast, this time borrowing one of Wheel of Time’s famed Aes Sedai. The upcoming threequel to the 2013 heist movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, and Morgan Freeman was recently confirmed after years of speculation about a potential return to the property. While several of the original Now You See Me cast are set to reprise their respective roles, several new actors have also been announced, including Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Justice Smith (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves), and Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers­).

Now a new casting announcement has revealed that Academy Award nominee and Wheel of Time star Rosamund Pike is also set to join Now You See Me 3’s ensemble cast. While Pike’s character is described as a “pivotal role,” the details of who she will be playing are being kept firmly under wraps. Touted as a “reimagined sequel,” the franchise's latest movie will introduce audiences to a whole new generation of magicians and is expected to serve as a new launching pad for the property's future.

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While Now You See Me 3 will see most of the franchise’s original cast return, there are still a few notable exceptions whose absence will be keenly felt. Not only has Now You See Me 2’s Lizzy Caplan been left out of the movie's current casting announcements, but screen veteran Michael Caine officially announced his retirement from acting in October 2023. As the franchise’s original villain and former sponsor of the group of stage magicians known as the Horsemen, Caine’s Arthur Tressler was a central figure in 2013’s Now You See Me and its 2016 sequel.

However, while Caine’s character will likely be left out of the franchise’s third movie, there is a possibility that Pike’s casting could serve to continue to exert his character’s considerable influence. With Now You See Me 2 revealing that Daniel Radcliffe’s Walter Mabry was the illegitimate son of Caine’s spurned former billionaire, it is possible that Pike could be playing yet another member of Tressler’s family bent on revenge.

As a possible daughter to Caine’s Arthur Tressler, one who has already seen both her father and younger half-brother’s schemes foiled by the Horseman and imprisoned for their crimes, Pike could potentially play a major role in serving as a new threat to Eisenberg’s Daniel Atlas and his fellow illusionists. While it is not clear whether Pike will even serve as the main antagonist of Now You See Me 3, her strengths as an actor would put her in good stead as a potential replacement for the now-retired Caine.