Charlize Theron Has A Not Promising ‘The Old Guard 3’ Update

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Awful critic and audience scores, yet still debuting and staying as the #1 movie on the service, above the fantastic KPop Demon Hunters

So, if it’s bad, but people are watching, does that mean we’re getting The Old Guard 3

It’s complicated, and I would argue at this point, not especially mising

Well, I guess it’s mising if you don’t want another one to happen

This movie was five years in the making, a lengthy gap for a sequel, and as for whether there’s going to be another film, we have a few from those involved

First, the director, Victoria Mahoney, speaking to The Direct: “I’m not in the room

I’m not in that discussion of whether there will be another or not. ” She explained that the lengthy duction timeline for The Old Guard 2 prevented her from committing to other opportunities, stating, “The duration of this film took me from other jects I have, so I am legally obliged to some other jects

So, I will be for the next six, seven years, on some other jobs. ” That’s not a huge shock, as Mahoney did not direct the first film (and it’s possible that may explain some of the quality drop, as few other factors changed)

Given her apparent schedule and this movie’s reception, her not coming back is no great surprise

But they need Charlize Theron, star of the show, to continue the cliffhanger ending they set up, leaving things open for more installments

She just spoke to THR the possibility of making a trilogy out of it: MORE FOR YOU "One thing I've learned in this is that there are no guarantees, and it's really gracious of [Netflix] to not have pushed us into another direction

This was always where we wanted to land the film, and it's also very reminiscent of the first one

We never the first one thinking we were going to do a second, but that was just how it happened to be

So, we treated this one exactly the same, but I'm being completely honest when I say that we have absolutely no idea what that [third film] would even look. " It’s not great if this was where they wanted to “land the film” as it was very bad, and I’m not sure how it was reminiscent of the first one, which was much better

The idea here is that they left it open on purpose for a third movie, but there is apparently not even a concept for that, nor indications from Netflix at this point it’s going to happen

It also stands to reason that Theron may want to focus on other jects

She’s currently filming what will bably be one of the highest-file movies of the decade, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where she will reportedly play Circe in the ensemble cast

Outside of that, she apparently has four other movies in the works: Atomic Blonde 2, another action film, and Two for the Money and Apex

But this is Netflix, and with that comes Netflix money, so who knows

I would bet that this is the last we see of The Old Guard unless the second film manages to put up truly stunning numbers

It’s doing well, but that well

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