Even before last week’s release of Sicario: Day of the Soldado, it was revealed that screenwriter Taylor Sheridan has already mapped out his ideas for a third movie in the series. However, if a Sicario 3 does move ahead, it will do so without Stefano Sollima, director of the second movie.
“Every movie in these series needs to be a standalone that stays in the same world,” Sollima tells Variety. “I’d love to watch another chapter of Sicario, but it should be from a different director who has their own specific style. You shouldn’t have more than one film from the same director. Then it would be too much like a real franchise.”
The first Sicario was directed by Denis Villeneuve, who then handed over the director’s chair on the sequel to Sollima due to his commitments to Blade Runner 2049. There has been talk that Villeneuve could return to the series, although he’s likely to be tied up for the next few years with his planned two-film Dune adaptation.
In SICARIO, Day of the Soldado, the series begins a new chapter. In the drug war, there are no rules – and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin’s daughter to inflame the conflict – but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado sees Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro reprising their Sicario roles alongside Isabela Moner (Transformers: The Last Knight), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Magnificent Seven and Jeffrey Donovan (Fargo).
