Wait… Does Lord of War even need a sequel? Wasn’t it based on some real life guy?
No, and yes.
Yes. This guy:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout
A US sting operation in cooperation with Thailand and Interpol caught him in 2008. He was eventually extradited and convicted in the US. In 2022 he was traded back to Russia in exchange for Brittney Griner.
To be fair some new stuff has happened in the life of the guy the movie was about.
Everything gets a sequel now doesn’t it
Yes cause new ideas are risky and scary to the executives. Oh no, a new concept might not rake in buckets of nostalgia money. Can’t risk people not liking something new, let’s regurgitate every possible franchise and property in the pursuit of unending growth of the box office revenue.
And destroy the nostalgia while doing so.
It’s not a new thing. Look back to radio dramas and dime novels and you’ll see the same thing.
If by “now” you mean the entire history of cinema, then yes.
So long as marketing matters, existing recognition is hard to beat.
Augh please dont massacre my boy.
Seeing as the article doesn’t really say much about the movie itself, just the logitistics and financials of making it:
with Cage reprising his role as arms dealer Yuri Orlov, and Skarsgard on board to play his son. In Lords of War, Orlov discovers he has a son, Anton, who is trying to top his father’s wrongs rather than stop them as he launches a mercenary army to fight America’s Middle East conflicts.
please please please just be entertaining to watch, i don’t mind seeing more unhinged nic cage!
I thought that read “‘Lord of the Rings’ Sequel” when I was first scanning the headline and was a bit confused.
