It Looks Like a Sequel to David Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES Is Moving Forward
Director David Cronenberg was originally supposed to direct a sequel to his badass film Eastern Promises back in 2012. Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel were both set to reprise their roles, but Focus Features ended up shutting it down.
According to My Entertainment World, the sequel is now moving forward! They say that the film will start production in March and will be titled Body Cross. The sequel was written by the original film's screenwriter, Steven Knight, who has since written some quality stuff such as Peaky Blinders, Locke, Taboo, and Allied. The report also provides the following synopsis:
Picking up where the 2007 film left off with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime-lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia’s federal security service.
It's exciting to hear that this movie is moving forward because I freakin' loved Easter Promises! I'm just not sure who else is involved. I hope that Cronenberg, Mortensen, and Cassel are set to return, but the report doesn't indicate that at all.
Back In 2012, Indiewire interviewed Cronenberg, and he said he wasn't involved with it anymore:
"It was something I really wanted to explore because it was the first time I had ever been tempted to do a sequel because I felt I wasn’t finished with the character of Nikolai, played by Viggo Mortensen, and Kirill played by Vincent Cassel. I really wanted to see Nikolai go back to Russia, because one of the things I wanted in the first movie was that you see a bunch of Russians in London but you never see them in Russia. In other words, you experience their exile and they are trying to recreate some of Russia within London. In the original screenplay, there were some scenes in Russia and I thought it was better if we don’t see that – they long for Russia but we never see that."
Hopefully, he and the actors decided to come back and be a part of the sequel, otherwise, what's the point? We should find out soon enough. If the film starts shooting in March, I imagine we'll see something officially announced soon.
Via: /Film