Upcoming Action Sequels You Had No Idea Were Being Made
Ever wonder what a sequel to "Face/Off" or "Heat" might look like? You won't have to wonder for too much longer, because these action movies are getting sequels in the upcoming months and years.
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00:00Ever wonder what a sequel to Face Off or Heat might look like?
00:03You won't have to wonder for too much longer, because these action movies are getting sequels
00:07in the upcoming months and years.
00:10The Tomorrow War stars Chris Pratt as a military vet who gets drafted into a war against alien
00:15invaders.
00:16The big catch?
00:17The war is taking place 30 years in the future.
00:20That's a pretty interesting concept for sci-fi fans, but the film received mixed reviews
00:24by critics.
00:25Nevertheless, director Chris McKay may or may not be returning to the director's chair
00:30for The Tomorrow War 2, which he recently confirmed to be in development.
00:33When asked about a sequel by Uproxx in April 2023, McKay stated that a script is in the
00:41works.
00:42Originally slated for a theatrical release through Paramount, The Tomorrow War was ultimately
00:46bought and distributed by Prime Video as a consequence of the pandemic, making it one
00:51of the most expensive movies ever to debut on a streaming service.
00:55It may not have raked in cash at the box office, but its viewership stats were massive
00:58enough to earn it a sequel.
01:00No plot, casting, scheduling, or distribution details have been unveiled yet, though.
01:05The Extraction films star Chris Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a former Australian SASR operator
01:11who now works as a black ops mercenary.
01:13The first film became Netflix's most-watched movie ever when it dropped on the streamer
01:17in April 2020, with 99 million views in its first month.
01:21The fact that everyone was quarantined in their homes at the time certainly helped.
01:25Understandably, 2023's Extraction 2 wasn't quite as popular, but it still did big numbers
01:31for Netflix.
01:32That's why it was announced that same year that a third Extraction is in development,
01:36as Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave announced it at Netflix's To Doom global event in June
01:41of that year.
01:42Since then, all signs have pointed to the pre-production process moving smoothly, with
01:46Netflix head of film Scott Stuber teasing Idris Elba's return and emphasizing that the
01:50third installment is being developed carefully in order to live up to the first two.
01:55In May 2024, Chris Hemsworth told Collider,
01:57"...we're in the middle of sort of writing, prepping, getting it ready.
02:00I don't know when we're gonna start, but it's in the works."
02:04Deadline has confirmed that a fourth Riddick movie is on the way, and it's happening sooner
02:08than you might think.
02:09The Chronicles of Riddick franchise began in 2000 with Pitch Black, then continued with
02:132004's The Chronicles of Riddick and 2013's Riddick.
02:17Now more than a decade later, Riddick Furia is about to begin production.
02:21With David Tui once again handling writing and directing duties, the film will follow
02:26Richard B. Riddick's return to his home planet, Furia, of which he has little memory.
02:30The Ape finds that the people of Furia are embroiled in a struggle against a monster
02:34that threatens their existence.
02:36According to the official synopsis,
02:37"...some of these Furians are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined."
02:40The international shoot, which will take place in Spain, Germany, and the UK, will begin
02:45on August 26th, 2024.
02:47"...Riddick's going home."
02:50A sequel to Netflix's The Gray Man, an action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans,
02:55and Ana de Armas is currently in the pipeline.
02:58Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, who captivated the world years earlier with Avengers Infinity
03:03War and Endgame, The Gray Man became one of the most-watched Netflix movies of all time
03:07following its release in 2022.
03:10By the end of its first 28 days on the platform, it had already clocked close to 250 million
03:15watch hours.
03:16Little information on the sequel has been disclosed, but we do know that development
03:20is going strong thanks to an interview given by the Russos to Total Film in April 2024.
03:25During the interview, Joe Russo explained that the film is still finding its footing
03:29story-wise, saying,
03:30"...we're developing concepts we think are the right decision to take Gosling's character
03:34in, and so we are working on that at the moment."
03:37The David Harbour-starring 2022 flick Violent Night was the biggest Christmas-themed actioner
03:42since Die Hard, featuring the Stranger Things actor as a gritty version of Santa Claus going
03:47up against a team of mercenaries.
03:49Naturally, talk of a sequel began not long after the film's release.
03:53According to producers Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, a follow-up is indeed happening,
03:57with pre-production going swimmingly so far.
04:00Universal is reportedly optimistic about the potential for a full-fledged franchise.
04:04The pair spoke with Collider at South by Southwest 2024, and revealed that there's
04:08a lot of behind-the-scenes enthusiasm for the Violent Night sequel, including from Harbour
04:13himself, who's eager to put on the red-and-white outfit once again.
04:16Although the schedules of the various parties involved have been difficult to coordinate,
04:20McCormick revealed that several drafts of the screenplay have already been written,
04:24and also that there's a possibility Violent Night 2 could start filming as soon as the
04:28beginning of 2025.
04:30"...another f----- Christmas."
04:33Red Notice shattered a stunning Netflix record by scoring the biggest opening day ever for
04:38one of the streamer's originals in 2021.
04:41That led to not one, but two sequels being greenlit.
04:44As Netflix head of film Scott Stuber revealed to Collider in November 2023, one of those
04:49sequels is currently well into the development process.
04:51At the time of the interview with Stuber, a final draft of the screenplay for Red Notice
04:562 was set to be near completion.
04:57Netflix has been in no hurry to make up for lost time to The Hollywood Strikes when it
05:01comes to the film's development, and doesn't seem to be rushing the scripting process along.
05:06Stuber said that he was shooting for a late 2024 production start, so with the script
05:10nearly finalized and ready to go, production on the long-awaited sequel to the action-comedy
05:15film should be starting sooner rather than later.
05:18Stuber didn't give an update on Red Notice 3, despite Deadline reporting that the two
05:22sequels would be shot back-to-back.
05:24A sequel to Nobody, the unexpected 2021 hit starring Bob Odenkirk as a mild-mannered family
05:30man who gets thrust back into his violent past is set to be released in 2025.
05:35As reported by Collider, Nobody 2 is set to start shooting from August to October 2024,
05:41once again starring Odenkirk as Hutch Mansell and Connie Nielsen as his wife Becca.
05:45This time around, original director Ilya Neshula will not be in the hot seat.
05:49Instead, Nobody 2 will be directed by Indonesian director Timo Chianto.
05:54But if it's anything like his intense 2018 actioner The Night Comes for Us, Hutch's enemies
05:59are going to be put through the wringer even worse this time around.
06:02"...I'm gonna f— you up."
06:08With a capable filmmaker at the helm and a likable veteran actor in the lead, everything
06:12seems to be on track for a release date of August 15th, 2025.
06:17A sequel to Gunpowder Milkshake was announced before the film would even hit cinemas by
06:21way of a special presentation from distributor Studio Canal at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
06:27Although not a lot of development details have come out about it since then, we can
06:30assume that the sequel is still being worked on, as neither Studio Canal nor Netflix have
06:35announced anything to the contrary.
06:37Given that the first Gunpowder Milkshake was released directly to Netflix, along with a
06:41limited theatrical release in the United States and Canada in 2021, we don't know much about
06:46the film's financial metrics and whether or not it became profitable.
06:49What we do know is that it topped the U.S. Nielsen ratings for its release week, so it's
06:53entirely possible that it made enough bank to prompt a sequel.
06:56Still, no production, plots, or cast details about Gunpowder Milkshake 2 have been unveiled
07:02just yet.
07:04At the same 2021 Cannes presentation in honor of Studio Canal's 30th anniversary that saw
07:08the announcement of Gunpowder Milkshake 2, further details were also unveiled on the
07:12previously announced sequel to 2011's Attack the Block.
07:16The British cult favorite action-comedy sci-fi horror romp about alien creatures invading
07:20a council estate in South London will be followed up by another installment from writer-director
07:25Joe Cornish.
07:26Cornish, Naira Park, and Edgar Wright will be producing through Complete Fiction Pictures,
07:31the production company they launched together in 2018.
07:34John Boyega, who had his breakthrough in the first film and will once again be headlining
07:38the cast, is also signing on as a producer through his Upper Room Productions.
07:42In a statement published by The Hollywood Reporter at the time, Boyega said,
07:46"...Moses has remained one of my favorite characters to play and bringing him back is
07:49a huge honor."
07:50Cornish, meanwhile, has stated that he wants Attack the Block 2 to live up to iconic sci-fi
07:54sequels like Aliens and Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
07:58Very few people expected a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie to be fresh, exciting,
08:03and visually stunning in 2023.
08:06But Jeff Rose's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem pulled it off by turning to
08:10the medium of animation.
08:11The film became a critical and box office success, and a sequel was soon confirmed by
08:15Paramount with a release date already set.
08:18Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael will return on October 9th, 2026.
08:24Rose is expected to return as director along with the main voice casts of Micah Abbey,
08:28Shimon Brown Jr., Nicholas Cantu, Brady Noon, and Iowa Deberry as the Ninja Turtles face
08:33off against their most iconic foe, the Shredder.
08:36Shredder's arrival was teased at the end of the first film, and Rose is excited about
08:40what that means for the Turtles.
08:41As he told Empire,
08:42"'It'll be really interesting to see these fun-loving characters go up against something
08:46that maybe they can't stop.'"
08:48"'You watch a movie with a human?
08:51You ratted us out!'
08:52"'Hey!
08:53Don't use that word that way.'"
08:55Paramount Pictures announced in January 2024 that a sequel to Top Gun Maverick would be
09:00happening, a major turn of events for a franchise that boasts a 36-year gap between the first
09:05two installments.
09:06That's not exactly a surprising one, though, given that Maverick took breaking the box
09:10office to a whole new level with its nearly $1.5 billion haul.
09:14Producer Jerry Bruckheimer gave an update on the sequel during an interview with ScreenRant
09:19in March 2024, stating that Maverick director Joseph Kaczynski came up with the story idea
09:24to Tom Cruise's liking and was presently developing it into a screenplay.
09:28No one other than them knows what the story idea is, but Cruise, Glenn Powell, and Miles
09:32Teller are all expected to return.
09:35According to Bruckheimer, now it's all a matter of whether or not Cruise will approve of Kaczynski's
09:39script and find time in his busy schedule to bring back Pete Maverick Mitchell once
09:43again.
09:45A sequel to 1997's Face Off was announced in 2022, with Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam
09:50Wingard at the helm and his frequent collaborator Simon Barrett handling writing duties.
09:55Wingard played coy about the project's concrete prospects, though, stating that it could only
09:59be done if both John Travolta and Nicolas Cage agreed to sign on as Sean Archer and
10:04caster Troi.
10:05In April 2024, it was reported by Daniel Richtman that Cage and Travolta will indeed be coming
10:10back for Face Off 2.
10:12"...the eternal battle between good and evil, saint and sinner."
10:17Spoiler alert for the original film, but this is likely to force many fans into a reinterpretation
10:21of its ending, which appeared to kill Troi rather decisively.
10:25However, Simon Barrett has stated that he never believed that Troi's death was for real,
10:29since his body wasn't covered up as he was loaded into the ambulance.
10:33If that's the case, he probably spends the next twenty-something years in prison or in
10:36a coma, waiting to be unleashed in Face Off 2.
10:39A fourth Rush Hour installment has been teased again and again in the entertainment press
10:43for years now.
10:45More recently, fan excitement for the film has been ramped up by encouraging updates
10:48from Chris Tucker, who confirms the project's existence in 2018.
10:52Jackie Chan, who revealed in 2017 that a script he approved of had finally been completed,
10:57said in 2022 that the Rush Hour 4 script was still being discussed.
11:01Then in 2023, Tucker once again stated that Rush Hour 4 was among his intended upcoming
11:07projects.
11:08No official announcements have yet been made by Warner Bros. regarding such a movie, though.
11:12With the studio having long since cut ties with Brett Ratner following sexual misconduct
11:16accusations, it's unlikely that he'd be returning to the director's chair.
11:20But development has apparently been happening for years now, and both Tucker and Chan seem
11:24excited about it.
11:26Michael Mann is known for his action-packed character studies, and none are more exciting
11:30than 1995's Heat.
11:32This nearly three-hour-long crime epic set Robert De Niro's professional thief Neil McCauley
11:37up against Al Pacino's bombastic cop Vincent Hanna, and their story seemed to come to a
11:41pretty decisive conclusion at the Los Angeles International Airport.
11:45So how could Mann possibly continue this story?
11:48You can find out by reading his 2022 novel, Heat 2, which is being adapted into a feature
11:53film of the same name.
11:55In the tradition of notable, similarly-themed second installments like The Godfather Part
11:592, Heat 2 acts as both a prequel and a sequel, and even a sidequel, flashing back and forth
12:04in time.
12:05As far as casting goes, nothing has been confirmed, but GQ has reported that Adam Driver, Ana
12:10de Amos, Austin Butler, and Jeremy Allen White are among the actors rumored to be involved
12:15with the sequel-slash-prequel.
12:17This crew is good."
12:201993's Cliffhanger is among the most financially successful films of Sylvester Stallone's career,
12:25and plans for a sequel were being made as early as 1994.
12:29That second installment, which would have seen Sly locking horns with terrorists at
12:33the Hoover Dam, never materialized, with various writers and directors walking through the
12:37revolving doors over the decades.
12:39Finally, in May 2023, the project got a fresh start as a legacy sequel.
12:44Director Rick Roman-Waugh replaced Anna Lily Amapour, who had been slated to helm a female-fronted
12:49reboot.
12:50Later in December 2023, Scream Daily reported that Waugh had also been replaced, this time
12:55by French filmmaker Jean-Francois Richet.
12:57But the film itself is still very much happening.
12:59The project will be a co-production between the U.S., the U.K., and Germany, with Stallone
13:04set to star once again as rescue ranger Gabe Walker.
13:07He may be pushing 80, but it looks like he's still got what it takes to survive in the
13:11mountains.
13:13A sequel to Netflix's action-heavy superhero flick The Old Guard, which ended on a massive
13:17sequel launching Cliffhanger, has already been filmed, but no release date has been
13:21announced.
13:22Retired T.S.
13:23Schoenaerts revealed to Collider in February 2024 that the delay seemed to be due to the
13:27changes in Netflix management, with Gregg Peters having taken over from Reed Hastings
13:32as co-CEO alongside Ted Sarandos.
13:34Schoenaerts claimed,
13:35"'We shot it approximately a year and a half ago, and I think they're hitting the last
13:39stage of post-production.
13:40As far as I've understood, I think there's been a switch at Netflix higher up.
13:43I think there's a different CEO, so that leads to a reconsidering of release.
13:47And how and when, and that's not up to me."
13:50That was confirmed by Charlize Theron, who will be joined in the sequel by much of the
13:53original supporting cast as well as newcomers Uma Thurman and Henry Golding.