Sequel Bits: ‘Glass’, ‘Lord Of The Rings’, ‘John Wick 3’, ‘Pacific Rim’ And More
By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2017 2:00 pm EST
Glass, the highly-anticipated to both M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable and Split, is done shooting. Shyamalan may have been planning his Unbreakable continuation for 17 years, but it took him only 25 days to shoot Glass. The film will bring back Bruce Willis’ superhuman David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price, aka Mr. Glass. Also involved: the characters from Shyamalan’s recent Split, Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cook and James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb. Shyamalan confirmed he finished shooting on Twitter:
Finished 25 days of shooting on #Glass. Wow! I’m exhausted and excited in equal measures.
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) November 4, 2017
Speaking of Glass, new set photos surfaced today showing Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr. Glass back in action. The images have the character still confined to a wheelchair, and wearing the same purple outfit he wore in Unbreakable. For those who forgot, Mr. Glass is a supervillain who has osteogenesis imperfecta, a disease that makes his bones as fragile as glass. Head over to the Daily Mail to see the pics.
John Wick caught folks completely by surprise in 2014. The premise, featuring Keanu Reeves as a hitman on a revenge rampage after his dog is killed, seem ludicrous, but the film was fantastic. John Wick 2 opened up the mythology established in the first film, and made enough money to warrant John Wick 3. The film already has a set release date of May 17th, 2019, with Chad Stahelski directing. Omega Underground speculates that the new film will likely begin shooting in the spring of 2018 to make that release date possible.
Not many people bothered to see Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but the director has kept up the hope that one day he’ll get to make a sequel. In fact, he wants to make multiple sequels, and has already written Valerian 2 and 3. In a new interview with Screen Rant, Besson was asked if he’d be willing to compromise and shift the multiple stories he wants to tell from the big screen to the small. Besson responsed with a firm “no” – it’s either movies or nothing for him, it seems.
Pacific Rim: Uprising, the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, will continue the first film’s robot vs. Kaiju theme for a whole new generation. In the film, John Boyega plays Jake Pentecost, the son of Idris Elba’s character Stacker Pentecost. Pacific Rim: Uprising doesn’t come out until 2018, but the film is already doing a pretty good job of marketing itself. For instance, the Twitter account for the film has a quick montage of clips from the film highlighting Boyega’s character.
Born into the aftermath of a world at war, Jake Pentecost will fight for the fallen. #PacificRimUprising pic.twitter.com/TdcmcrWUju
— Pacific Rim (@PacificRim) November 8, 2017
