Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve, airs tonight on Arte. The film was called Sequel, directed by Stefano Sollima. Is there a 3rd movie in the works?
Before taking on Dune, the second part of which will land on November 15, 2023, Denis Villeneuve released a detective thriller with Sicario in 2015.
With feverish, constant tension, this film captivated the minds of many viewers and earned $84 million worldwide on a budget of $30 million. In France, the first part attracted about 450,000 curious people.
Three years later, Denis Villeneuve, having traveled to the planet Arakis to shoot Dune, his SF mural, is taken over by Italian director Stefano Sollima.
The director is a specialist in brutal and uncompromising action. We owe him the extraordinary film Suburra and the production of the Gomorra TV series. So it made sense that the producers of Sicario called on his talent and experience to replace Denis Villeneuve.
Sicario La Guerre des Cartels was released in June 2018 and collected almost as much green money as the first episode: $75 million for a budget of $35 million. In France, it does not reach the score of the previous opus, but still attracts 240,000 viewers in theaters.
Therefore, a sequel is mentioned by the production to complete the trilogy. Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin reprise their roles as Emily Blunt (absent from the second film) to take down the drug lord.
However, Stefano Sollima has already expressed his desire not to return to directing, preferring to give space to a new author.
“Each film in this saga needs to exist on its own and set in the same world. I would love to see another chapter of Sicario, but it has to be from a different director who has his own style. You shouldn’t have more than one film. By the same director, because otherwise it’s too similar.” A real franchise.”The Transalpine director entrusted Variety with the microphone in 2018.
Therefore, Solima will not return in the Sicario saga. Denis Villeneuve has also moved on, very busy at the moment with Dune 2. In addition, his next project should be Date with Rama, in addition to the feature film Cleopatra in the Fire. As the Italian filmmaker points out, it will take a third director to bring new momentum to the franchise.
For his part, Josh Brolin returned to the theme of Sicario 3 in May 2022 while promoting the Western Outer Range: “It’s all in our minds, the actor admits. This movie is written. And rewritten. It’s there, somewhere. How we want to do it.”He pointed in the columns THR.
Therefore, Sicario 3 will not see the light of day for a long time, if Josh Brolin’s statements are to be believed. So we will have to wait until the drug cartels return to the ruthless world.
SICARIO 2 trailer
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