“Den of Thieves” followers won’t have to attend one other seven years between sequels.
A 3rd film within the Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson-led franchise is in growth at Lionsgate, IndieWire has discovered, with each Butler and Jackson anticipated to reprise their roles as rogue cop “Huge Nick” O’Brien and grasp thief Donnie Wilson, respectively. Christian Gudagest, who wrote and directed each “Den of Thieves” and “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” can be in talks to return for the third movie.
Tucker Tooley Leisure and Butler’s manufacturing firm G-BASE are additionally set to return as producers on the challenge. Lionsgate will distribute the movie.
No plot particulars have been introduced.
“Pantera” topped the U.S. field workplace with a $15.5 million opening weekend and has grossed $32 million domestically to this point. The movie debuted on PVOD on Tuesday, January 28. The primary “Den of Thieves” grossed $80 million worldwide.
“Den of Thieves” was made on a price range of $30 million, whereas “Pantera” upped the price range to $40 million, however the franchise prides itself on taking pictures motion spectacle as cheaply and rapidly as potential.
“Generally you desire to a bit extra time, however typically the quicker I transfer in a film, the higher,” Butler stated throughout a latest interview with IndieWire. “There’s much less time to consider it and overwork issues, and also you’re simply in it… It’s guerrilla filmmaking and we get as a lot film in there as we are able to.”
Launched in 2018, the unique “Den of Thieves” adopted Huge Nick as he pressured Donnie, a mole on this planet’s most elite crew of financial institution robbers, for details about a plot to rob the Federal Reserve — solely to search out out that he was being performed all the time. “Pantera” flipped the premise and noticed Nick and Donnie staff up on a diamond heist — although it additionally featured sufficient twists to make sure that the franchise might proceed in any variety of instructions. The unique movie has some cult enchantment, together with artwork home director Christian Petzold amongst them.
“Even when no person was asking for ‘Den of Thieves 2,’ it could be time to start out crossing our fingers for “Den of Thieves 3,” IndieWire’s “Pantera” evaluate reads. “Butler and Jackson’s frenemy dynamic is firing on all cylinders by the top of ‘Pantera,’ and the overlap between the characters’ mutual respect for each other and insatiable need to screw one another over might result in infinite future adventures on each aspect of the regulation.”
No launch date or manufacturing timeline for “Den of Thieves 3” has been introduced.
Tucker Tooley Leisure beforehand partnered with Lionsgate on “Arthur the King” and can be behind the upcoming documentary “Discovering Satoshi.”