‘Sicario: Day Of The Soldado’ Trailer: Josh Brolin And Benicio Del Toro Start A War
TheSicariosequel has a new trailer, and a new title to match.Sicario: Day of the Soldadocontinues the story of Denis Villeneuve’s intense 2015 drug cartel drama.Josh BrolinandBenicio Del Tororeturn, while Emily Blunt decides to sit this one out. Watch theSicario Day of the Soldadotrailer below.
I very much enjoyed Denis Villeneuve’s anxiety-inducing thrillerSicario. The film featured Emily Blunt as an FBI agent who gets plunged head-first into a drug war. Along the way, she teams with a mysterious government agent, played by Josh Brolin, and an even more mysterious outsider, played by Benicio Del Toro. The film was full of pulse-pounding moments, including a nightmarish opening sequence that made me squirm in my seat. Yet, as much as I enjoyedSicario, I wasn’t exactly clamoring for a sequel. To make things even stranger, the sequel we now have –Sicario: Day of the Soldado– isn’t directed by Denis Villeneuve, and original star Emily Blunt has opted not to return. Brolin and Del Toro are back, though, andStefano Sollimadirects. The sequel was previously titledSicario 2: Soldado, but has now been updated toSicario: Day of the Soldado. Along with the new title, here’s a new trailer.
Sicario Day of the Soldado Trailer
USATodayreveals the plot ofSicario: Day of Soldadorevolves around Del Toro’s character Alejandro being “hired again by CIA operative Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) to start a war between dueling cartels by kidnapping Isabela Reyes (Isabela Moner), the teenage daughter of infamous kingpin Carlos Reyes. When the mission is exposed, and Graver orders Alejandro to terminate Isabela, the killer’s cold façade cracks.”
I’m cautiously optimistic about this film. While I’d prefer Villeneuve in the director’s chair,Taylor Sheridan, who wrote the firstSicario, came back to pen the sequel’s script as well. And while I’d much rather have another film featuring Emily Blunt, Brolin and Del Toro are strong enough actors to make for an interesting dynamic.
Writer Taylor Sheridan has teased somestory detailsabout the sequel in the past:
“One of the producers called me and said, ‘If you were to do a sequel, how would you do it?’ and when he first brought it up I thought,' Well of course you’re asking me.' And then I had an idea, and I said, ‘Look you’re able to’t really do a sequel, but I sure would love to see what happened if these guys didn’t have a chaperone.’ Because basically they’re operating within the United States, so I played with some actual laws that exist and found a way that they could operate more or less legally within the U.S. But they had a chaperone. What happens if they weren’t in the U.S. and they didn’t have a chaperone? How bad or good would that work out? You’ve seen Sicario, good isn’t going to factor into it too much.”
