The waiting game for Sicarius 3 maybe soon finished with the news Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin are expected to return for the latest sequel, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed.
A Sicarius 3 the mission would reunite co-leads Del Toro as Alejandro Gillick and Brolin as Matt Graver with Blunt as 2015’s Domestic Agent Kate Macer. Sicarius. Black Label Media and Thunder Road have also attached Padraic McKinley to direct and Steven Knight to write the screenplay.
A third outing for the franchise would follow Sicario: Day of the Soldado, THE 2018 sequel to the original by Denis Villeneuve Sicarius film directed by Stefano Sollima. Sicarius 2 followed a federal border agent (Brolin) who enlists Del Toro’s character in a battle to stop Mexican drug cartels from trafficking terrorists across the border into the United States.
There’s no word on the storyline for the third Sicarius film, which was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood writers’ strike and is expected to be a trilogy for the world and characters created by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan in the first two films in the franchise.
“We’re very close. This is one of the projects where we’re ready to hit the ground running as soon as the strike ends and our path is clear. So we’re very excited to get this whole group together again,” said Molly Smith, who runs Black Label Media with her sister Rachel Smith and twin brothers Trent and Thad Luckinbill. The Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “Taylor (Sheridan) always envisioned it as a trilogy, so we need to close it properly. There’s no point in doing that unless we can do justice to the true fans of Sicarius.”
Production credits will be shared by Molly Smith and the Luckinbill Twins for Black Label Media, Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee for Thunder Road and Ed McDonnell. Black Label Media is best known for producing the Sicarius films and co-financing The The Earth.
Deadline was the first to report on the casting of Sicarius 3.
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