Bob Odenkirk and writer Derek Kolstad are back for Nobody 2, and we now know who the new director is too. More here.
Nobody was one of the biggest action cinema treats of 2021. Boasting one of the best fight sequences of that year – not since Sylvester Stallone’s brawl in The Specialist has a group of ruffians received such a thorough beating on a bus – 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 according to Deadline, Odenkirk has closed the deal return for the sequel.
Timo Tjahjanto, who previously made the Indonesian action thriller The Night Comes For Us, will direct. Ilya Naishuller directed the first film.
Screenwriter Derek Kolstad, who also created the John Wick franchise, is returning to co-write the screenplay with Aaron Rabin and Umair Aleem.
It looks like Universal are 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.
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.”
Will keep you posted on that one too…