{"id":711258,"date":"2026-07-26T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:23:12","slug":"matchbox-the-movie-trailer-john-cena-runs-from-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/711258\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Trailer: John Cena Runs From CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Cena<\/a> is taking on another fast and furious franchise in the first look at Mattel<\/a>\u2018s action film take on the Matchbox<\/a> toy cars first released in 1953.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>, Apple TV<\/a> and Mattel debuted the first trailer for Matchbox: The Movie<\/a>, premiering Oct. 9 on the streamer, starring Cena and Jessica Biel<\/a> in a high-octane, globetrotting adventure. Watch it above.<\/p>\n

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\n\tInspired by the beloved toys, Matchbox follows a group of lifelong friends who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (Cena), their former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDirected by Sam Hargrave from a script by David Coggeshall, the movie also stars Arturo Castro, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Danai\u00a0Gurira, Golshifteh Farahani, Corey Stoll and Bill Camp.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers include David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Robbie Brenner, Ynon Kreiz and\u00a0Jules Daly, with executive producers Hargrave, Patrick Newall and Elizabeth Bassin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Cena is taking on another fast and furious franchise in the first look at Mattel\u2018s action film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9265,15101,96,13968,24378,151575,151576,37787,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-apple-tv","tag-comic-con","tag-entertainment","tag-jessica-biel","tag-john-cena","tag-matchbox","tag-matchbox-the-movie","tag-mattel","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}