Name all dads, or no less than followers of mid-budget motion motion pictures – Den of Thieves 3 is occurring. A number of weeks after Den of Thieves 2: Pantera got here onto the scene and took the highest spot on the field workplace early on the 2025 film schedule, a January pattern for Gerard Butler at this level, the world on the road is that we haven’t seen the cigarette-smoking Nick “Massive Nick” O’Brien or O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s Donnie Wilson. Thrilling information, proper? Properly, after the best way the good buddy motion film teased the following chapter, I’m very, very excited.
In January 2025, simply days after Den of Thieves 2: Pantera was launched on PVOD, IndieWire reported that Lionsgate was actively growing a 3rd installment within the heist film franchise, with Butler and Jackson, in addition to director Christian Gudagest, slated to return. And whereas nothing has been formally introduced concerning the plot, setting, and any new DOT characters, I’ve some ideas about the place issues may very well be headed after the Den of Thieves 2 ending.
It’s Not Over Between Massive Nick O’Brien And Donnie Wilson
SPOILER WARNING: There are main spoilers for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera beneath. For those who’ve but to observe the film, please flip again now (and don’t eat the donut off the bottom at a criminal offense scene).
Now that the entire spoiler warning enterprise is out of the best way, it’s time to speak concerning the Den of Thieves 2 ending and the way I feel it teased the upcoming threequel and presumably extra installments on this extremely rewatchable crime franchise.
After the large World Diamond Heart heist goes down and that superior automobile chase by the mountains ends with the Octopus mob outfit serving to Nick and Donnie, it appears to be like like issues are going to finish nicely for the pair of reluctant enemies-turned-friends. That’s till Nick sells out the crew to the Pantera process pressure, and Donnie is arrested. However that isn’t the one twist, as Donnie (whereas being transferred to a unique jail) is rescued/kidnapped by the mafia and given a task in its operation. Judging by a textual content Donnie sends to Massive Nick within the ultimate moments of the film, it sounds just like the down-on-his-luck and morally ambiguous former LASD deputy was in on it.
The open-ended Den of Thieves 2 ultimate scene might imply loads of issues for what’s subsequent for Massive Nick. As we’ve seen within the first two motion pictures, the man’s life again house is a large number – his spouse divorced him, he doesn’t get to see his daughters, he’s been placed on depart, there’s a intercourse tape that’s getting used towards him as blackmail, and so on. – and he could be higher suited beginning a brand new life. Whether or not which means a lifetime of crime or working with the Pantera pressure (or an analogous group), is anybody’s guess. However I don’t see Massive Nick going again to the established order in Los Angeles after this.
No matter what occurs in Den of Thieves 3 (please use the Den of Thi3ves titled, Lionsgate), I’ll be there but once more to see what’s going to most likely be one in all Gerard Butler’s finest motion pictures. I simply hope we don’t have to attend so lengthy this time.