Charlize Theron says The Old Guard 2 is still coming, but changes at Netflix appear to have held up the movie’s release.
After the success of the first film, starring Charlize Theron, Netflix quickly gave the greenlight to The Old Guard 2. Victoria Mahoney has directed the action thriller sequel, which co-stars KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Uma Thurman among others.
The movie completed photography nearly two years ago now, with production wrapping in September 2022. Since then though, it’s been pretty much radio silence. Netflix has been uncharacteristically mum about the movie, and there’s been no sign of a trailer, a bunch of promo pictures, or a release date.
Charlize Theron has given a new interview where the absence of The Old Guard 2 has been raised, and she tells Variety that the film is still on its way. “We got kind of stuck in that and our post-production shut down, I think, five weeks into it”.
There has been the suggestion that The Old Guard 2 might be shelved altogether, but that was never the case. Instead, she points to the changes that Netflix itself has been through over the last couple of years (Netflix has new people heading up its film side). That, and the strikes of last year also added some extra delays in there as well.
“We finally picked it back up and I’m really excited about it”, Charlize Theron adds of The Old Guard 2, which suggests that we might get a bit more progress soon. Considering that there’d been chatter about a possible The Old Guard 3 as well, the stumble in momentum isn’t ideal. Maybe we’ll get a bit more of the story when the film finally heads towards its release. For now, we simply know that the film is still coming, but we’re not yet the wiser as to exactly when.
More as we hear it, of course.
