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  • Sequel to ‘Eastern Promises’ is on the horizon

    Cronenberg and Mortensen are coming back for another round...

    June 11, 2012

    I wasn’t blown away by ‘Eastern Promises’, but I know it’s a fan favorite for some here at the site. It’s certainly not a film screaming for a sequel, but lo and behold, we apparently have one coming our way, according to Vulture here. What makes this interesting is that Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg (along with Vince Cassel as well) are coming back for seconds, making this suddenly not seem like an overt money grab…not that the film was a blockbuster to begin with. Steven Knight will again be writing the movie like last time around, and after the jump you can see what the story might be. I’m not eagerly awaiting this flick, but I’m a bit curious to see it, I won’t lie…

    Here’s what Vulture says the sequel will be concerned with:

    We hear the sequel, to be directed by Cronenberg and written by Steven Knight, picks up where the 2007 film left off — with the incompetent underboss Kirill (Cassel) thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai (Mortensen) really have inherited the throne from his crime-lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia’s federal security service.

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    When he’s not obsessing over new Oscar predictions on a weekly basis, Joey is seeing between 200 and 300 movies a year. He views the best in order to properly analyze the awards race/season each year, but he also watches the worst for reasons he mostly sums up as "so you all don't have to". In his spare time, you can usually find him complaining about the Jets or the Mets. Still, he lives and dies by film. Joey's a voting member of the Internet Film Critics Association as well. Today the IFCA, tomorrow the world!

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    5 Comments

    1. At least the principles are returning…

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    2. I think I’ll pass

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    3. I was fuckin blown away by this film just as I was by A Dangerous Method and A History of Violence. And how do you say that it isn’t screaming for a sequel? The end, the final shot, I thought it was very sequel baity. I cannot wait!

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