SICARIO 2 Writer Says The Sequel is Going To Be Ten Times More Vicious Than The First Film

If you skipped Sicario last year, you missed one of the year's best thrillers. It's a great movie, and one I'm proud to continue to champion in the hopes that more people eventually find it and give it a shot. The movie is the first in a planned trilogy, and we know the upcoming sequel, called Soldado, will feature returning actors Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin but won't feature original star Emily Blunt.

Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the first movie and the sequel, spoke with Collider about the new script and how it compares to the original, and he promises some big things in the process:

“Lionsgate understood that they bought something that was a spec (on the original Sicario). So there was a certain amount of latitude they had to give me (on Sicario 2). What usually would be a long meeting about what’s this character about, what’s his arc—we didn’t have that. They trusted me to just go do it, and with Sicario, which I’m really proud of, it really approaches some difficult subjects. I didn’t want to demean that with the second one. So I really wrote something I double dared them to actually make. Ten times more unsentimental, more vicious and really reflective…It’s funny, a lot of people think Sicario's about the drug war and the cartels. It’s not. It’s a movie about American policy and the way that we police and (Sicario 2) is that on steroids.”

Ten times more unsentimental and vicious than the first film? That's a high bar to clear. It sounds like Soldado is going to be way more action-packed than Sicario was, with new director Stefano Sollima saying "it's got an incredible amount of huge action sequences in there," so I'm looking forward to seeing how the same writer expands the world he created with some of the same actors and a different filmmaker at the helm.