EXCLUSIVE: 2x Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk has closed a deal to return for Nobody 2, a sequel to the acclaimed 2021 motion thriller from Universal Pictures and 87North.
Timo Tjahjanto (The Evening Comes for Us) will direct from a script by Derek Kolstad (John Wick, No person), Aaron Rabin (Jack Ryan), Odenkirk, and Umair Aleem (Kate). Kelly McCormick and David Leitch are returning to provide via 87North’s first look cope with Common, as are Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero via Odenkirk Provissiero Leisure, and Braden Aftergood via Eighty Two Movies.
Slated for launch on August 15, 2025, the movie will likely be overseen for Common by Govt Vice President of Manufacturing Growth Jay Polidoro and Director of Growth Tony Ducret.
Whereas plot particulars for the sequel are being stored underneath wraps, the unique movie centered on Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk), a seemingly abnormal suburban father who suppresses his previous as a lethal authorities murderer. After a house invasion shakes his household, Hutch’s dormant rage and expertise resurface, propelling him right into a violent battle with a Russian drug lord.
Directed by Ilya Naishuller from a script by Kolstad, the darkly comedic and compellingly choreographed actioner debuted at No.1 on the home field workplace, grossing over $57M worldwide upon its launch by Common amid the transition out of the Covid pandemic, in March 2021.
Finest identified for his function of Saul Goodman in AMC’s Breaking Unhealthy and prequel Higher Name Saul, Odenkirk most just lately exec produced and starred within the college-campus dramedy Fortunate Hank, additionally for AMC. This fall, along with filming No person 2, he’ll re-team with Kolstad on Regular, against the law thriller to be directed from Kolstad’s script by Ben Wheatley (Free Hearth).
A rising filmmaker out of Indonesia, Tjahjanto obtained his begin by directing V/H/S/2 phase “Secure Haven” alongside Gareth Evans. He went on to direct the thrillers The Evening Comes for Us and Could the Satan Take You, each of which premiered at Improbable Fest and are presently on Netflix. Among the many director’s different upcoming initiatives is the Indonesian motion thriller The Shadow Strays.
The creator and author of the John Wick franchise, Kolstad has previously few years tailored The Man from Nowhere for New Line and Splinter Cell for Netflix; created No person for Common and Die Hart for Quibi/Roku; Co-EP’d Marvel/Disney+’s restricted collection The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and produced The Princess for twentieth/Hulu and The Continental for Lionsgate/Peacock. Along with No person 2, he presently has initiatives in lively improvement at Lionsgate, Netflix, Amazon, Sony, Paramount, AGBO, Apple, Infrared/Movie Nation, twentieth, and CBS.
Odenkirk is represented by Odenkirk Provissiero Leisure and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Tjahjanto by WME, Leisure 360, and legal professional Marios Rush; Kolstad by UTA, Circle Administration + Manufacturing, and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson; Rabin by Grandview, CAA, and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham; and Aleem by Verve and legal professional Marios Rush. 87North is with CAA and JSSK.
