Update on Sequels for Bob Odenkirk's NOBODY and David Harbour's VIOLENT NIGHT
In case you’ve been wondering what’s going on with the sequels for Bob Odenkirk’s Nobody and David Harbour’s Violent Night, producer Kelly McCormick offers a positive update on both projects. Both the actors have expressed interest in returning to make sequels, and it sounds like those films are going to get made.
While speaking to Collider during this year’s SXSW, McCormick and producer David Leitch revealed that sequel plans for the movies are currently in progress. McCormick said the whole process is going well right now, and shared when he hopes to start production on them:
“We are planning on returns to those universes. Hopefully, honestly, even potentially end of this year for Nobody 2 and, beginning of next year for Violent Night 2, if we can find time in everybody’s busy schedules. But the development’s going super well and everybody’s really, really excited about moving those worlds forward,” said McCormick.
McCormick went on to say that scripts are already being written: “We’re well into a couple of drafts and things are going super well, but there’s still a little work to do.” It was previously confirmed that Tommy Wirkola will direct Violent Night 2.
Leitch also added that Universal Pictures is totally “invested” into turning these films into franchises and said that Odenkirk and Harbour are “fired up” to return for a sequel.
Nobody was a lot of fun, and there’s a lot more story that could be told in a sequel. In the first movie, Odenkirk played Hutch Mansell, a docile family man who slowly reveals his true character after his house gets burgled by two petty thieves, which, coincidentally, leads him into a bloody war with a Russian crime boss.
In Violent Night, when a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
Did you enjoy this films and are you excited that the sequels are moving forward?