SPOILER WARNING: The next article comprises main spoilers for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. For those who’ve but to observe the buddy heist movie, please proceed with warning.
The 2025 film schedule is in full swing, and we have already seen some winners like Den of Thieves 2: Pantera paly for audiences. Critics, too, had nice issues to say in regards to the buddy heist movie, particularly when it got here to the dynamic shared by Gerard Butler’s Nick “Huge Nick” O’Brien and O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s Donnie Wilson and the way it developed. Now that Den of Thieves 3 is going on, it appears like that relationship may very well be altering as soon as once more.
I just lately sat down with Christian Gudegast, the author and director of the Den of Thieves films to speak about every thing from the house launch of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, now out there on PVOD to the franchise’s future. Throughout that chat, I made certain to ask him simply how issues are going to vary for the 2 primary characters now that Donnie is working with the mafia and Huge Nick is actually a wished felony:
It’s going to evolve fairly a bit. I do not wanna speak about an excessive amount of, however they’re now going to go on a very completely different [path], there’s going to be a bit little bit of a task reversal within the sense that Donnie’s in all probability going to develop into a bit bit drained, as a result of they’re actually going to be on the run. Now we’re gonna go into an entire completely different world of heists, not cash, not money, not diamonds, an entire completely different world. It turns into more and more extra form of geopolitical and the gamers concerned go as much as the next degree, extra hazard, and so forth. Donnie’s going to develop a bit bit weary of all of it.
As chances are you’ll recall —I stated there could be spoilers — Den of Thieves 2: Pantera ended with Donnie being damaged out of jail (with the assistance of Huge Nick) by the mafia after the Pantera recreation is arrested for his or her half within the diamond heist and spectacular chase sequence. Now working for the Octopus group, it appears like Donnie will working his approach up the meals chain, as Gudegast put it.
However what about Huge Nick O’Brien and all his cigarettes? What’s he going to be as much as? Properly, as Gudegast put it to CinemaBlend, he’s going to be exploring a brand new stage in his life that’s like nothing that got here earlier than:
After which Nick is, simply now, for the primary time, feeling that thrill of being this wished felony. And he is chased them his complete life now, all of a sudden he’s that man. And in Den 2, we performed him form of going forwards and backwards. And in Den 3, he is going be form of all in. After which what that does to their dynamic. After which additionally simply personally, they will be going via various things.
Gudegast additionally alluded to each Nick and Donnie going via some extra private issues when Den of Thieves 3 picks up with their tales. He didn’t give an excessive amount of away, however by the sounds of it, this may very well be a serious soar in each Nick and Donnie’s dynamic and the story as an entire.
We’ll have to attend and see what occurs with Huge Nick and Donnie down the street. For now, we will at all times return and revisit Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, which is on the market on PVOD and shall be on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 4, 2025, from Lionsgate.