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Soldado (Sicario sequel) to focus on Del Toro's character, Stefano Sollima directing

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sicario-sequel-lands-director-898897
Italian helmer Stefano Sollima is in talks with Lionsgate to direct the sequel to Sicario. The film will be called Soldado, the Spanish word for soldier, and will center on Benicio Del Toro's character.
James Brolin will be back as a CIA agent who plays both sides of the fence in the American war on drugs. Emily Blunt, who starred in the first film as a righteous FBI agent, will not return.

Sollima directed the Gomorra miniseries, among other crime thrillers
 
The thing I'm most impressed by is that they didn't just call it Sicario 2.


oh shit, the director is the son of Sergio Sollima! Maybe the most underrated Italian director.
 
Del Toro was the stand out in Sicario, an entire move focused on him is fantastic news.

Hopefully it won't be a prequel type movie either, I want to see him after the events of Sicario.
 
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But will Deakins be back?
I'm guessing he'll be too busy working on the Blade Runner sequel
 
Can't wait. Also was kind of hoping they would go with a different title all together, something relating to the actual themes of the sequel. Glad they didn't go with 'Sicario II: Subtitle."
 
Sicario is like the most kickass and most misleading best film of the year.

Going in expecting Emily Blunt kicking ass
Coming out seeing Emily Blunt sidelined, getting her ass kicked, and Del Toro be the asskicker.
 
Sicario is like the most kickass and most misleading best film of the year.

Going in expecting Emily Blunt kicking ass
Coming out seeing Emily Blunt sidelined, getting her ass kicked, and Del Toro be the asskicker.
Blunt was awesome. But then she finds out her world is tiny and these ghost dudes operated on a whole different orbit and she is a freaking nobody.
 
The Bourne section was the worst part though. Felt like a completely different movie.
You mean the best part.

Del Toro's character was waiting for that moment for YEARS. He had enough time to prepare and work out the dude's mansion and everything else in between. It was personal for him. No stone was left unturned and it showed.
 
Sicario is like the most kickass and most misleading best film of the year.

Going in expecting Emily Blunt kicking ass
Coming out seeing Emily Blunt sidelined, getting her ass kicked, and Del Toro be the asskicker.
Agreed, he really kicked those
kids asses when he shot them in the face!
 
Look forward to it, but I hope they don't feel the need to film what happened to his daughter. Just hearing about it was bad enough.
 
I think Del Toro worked more as a mysterious background character who was obviously a badass.

A whole film focused on just him? I'm hoping to be surprised.
 
I avoided Sicario just because Benicio was in it. I have disliked him in just about everything I've seen him in.

I eventually saw it and it was such a surprise how awesome he was in in the movie. I really loved Emily Blunt, too.

I would have wanted some more Emily in a sequel but Benicio's character was pretty interesting so I'll still watch.
 
Should have called it The Land of Wolves. Either way I'm excited for this and the John Eick sequel. Now if we could get a Dredd sequel my life will be complete.
 
Wouldn't a movie about Del Toro's awesome badass adventures be contrary to the point of Sicario? We're not supposed to feel sympathetic with him. We're supposed to feel that he's the knife-point of the entire overwhelming US governmental/military apparatus, which makes Emily Blunt's character (i.e. the common person) feel exploited and powerless. We're supposed to feel disgusted with his actions and terrified at the power and worldview that he represents. He kills innocents, children, without remorse, and he does it in the name of power and revenge.
 
I'll watch it and I'll love it but fellow colombians are gonna have a tantrum that outside of Sofia Vergara the image of Colombia=drugs won't die in the media.

Again I give zero fucks, loved sicario.
 
Doesn't get higher than murdering children.
Of course. Higher path = not necessarily good path. Denzel in Training Day says the same to Hoyt. The higher path is not complicated by humans and their morals and such. He also rapes that dude in prison. I would love to see his world more.
 
Wouldn't a movie about Del Toro's awesome badass adventures be contrary to the point of Sicario? We're not supposed to feel sympathetic with him. We're supposed to feel that he's the knife-point of the entire overwhelming US governmental/military apparatus, which makes Emily Blunt's character (i.e. the common person) feel exploited and powerless. We're supposed to feel disgusted with his actions and terrified at the power and worldview that he represents. He kills innocents, children, without remorse, and he does it in the name of power and revenge.
Being a protagonist doesn't mean he can't also be a villain.
 
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