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Fans of the first film will be happy to hear that a sequel to David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises is in the works. Viggo Mortensen, the original screenwriter, producer, and studio Focus Features are all on board the sequel.
Cronenberg is supposed to have a meeting to discuss story ideas and then have writer Steven Knight dish out a script. If everyone likes it, they'll go ahead with the sequel. Cronenberg had this to say:
"It’s the first time I’ve ever been in a situation where I actually want to do a sequel to something. I’ve never had the desire to do that before. But in this case, I thought we had unfinished business with those characters. I didn’t feel that we had finished with Nikolai and we had done a lot of research that was more than we could stuff into that one movie."
No word if Naomi Watts would return, especially since they're not sure where they would go with her character anyway. They're also not sure how Vincent Cassel as gangster "Kirill", will fit into the story either.
I liked the first movie, but felt there was a lot of potential action that was missing, since it was more a drama than anything. I guess I was expecting too much considering I really loved History of Violence. Hopefully this sequel would give us a bit more of what was missing in the first.
SOURCE: MTV