Bob Odenkirk, writer Derek Kolstad and director Timo Tjahjanto are on board for Nobody 2, Sharon Stone has joined the cast.
Nobody was one of the biggest action cinema treats of 2021. Boasting one of the best fight sequences of that year, a sequel has been in the works ever since.
The first film followed Bob Odenkirk as former assassin Hutch, who attracts the ire of a gang boss after he injures his son in the aforementioned beating.
Odenkirk suffered severe health problems in the years since, he had a heart attack and subsewuently had stents fitted. Thankfully, he came through it and is onboard for the sequel, along with returning writer Derek Kolstad. Odenkirk and Kolstad wrote the script with Aaron Rabin and Umair Aleem.
Timo Tjahjanto will direct Nobody 2. John Wick director David Leitch and Kelly McCormick are co-producing through their company 87North.
According to Deadline, Sharon Stone has joined the cast as the film’s villain. Though Stone is best known for her roles in Basic Instinct and Casino, in recent years she has turned to television, featuring in Ryan Murphy’s Ratched at Netflix and Paolo Sorentino’s The New Pope at HBO. She also penned her memoir, from which the image for this article is taken.
Odenkirk is also set to film another feature scripted by Kolstad this year. Ben Wheatley will direct that particular production. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the plot follows “Ulysses, a temporary sheriff – ‘the substitute teacher of the sheriff world’ – running away from the demons of his past, who has taken over in the sleepy town of Normal after the untimely death of the town’s original lawman. But when the town’s bank is robbed by outsiders, Ulysses uncovers a deep criminal conspiracy at the heart of Normal and realizes that everyone in town, from the bartender to the priest, is in on it.”
It looks like Universal is keen to get Nobody 2 in front of the cameras as soon as possible, and it has set a release date of 15th August 2025.
