James Marsden spent ‘a billion hours’ practicing for Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’s final fight scene

Marsden and director BenDavid Grabinski break down the time-travel comedy’s action-packed climax BenDavid Grabinski always wanted to make an action movie. In 2026, he finally got his chance. “It's the thing that I want to do the most,” Grabinski tells Polygon. “I love Hong Kong action movies. I love John Woo movies. I love Ronny Yu. I love Jackie Chan.” The co-creator of Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off puts his spin on the time-travel genre in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, which tells the story of a mob enforcer named Nick (Vince Vaughn) who travels back in time to save his partner-in-crime Mike (James Marsden). Hijinks ensue as a foursome made up of Mike, future Nick, present Nick, and Nick’s wife Alice (Eiza González) try to stop a murder and change the timeline. While the movie is more comedy than action, thanks to Vaughn’s knack for rapid-fire zingers, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice culminates with an epic gunfight as our heroes take the fight directly to their former crime boss Sosa (Keith David) and his army of goons. The result is a bloody shootout spread across two floors of a sprawling mansion. For both Grabinski and Marsden, it was a dream come true. “I loved all the action s