Aside from Blunt's pregnancy, screenwriter Taylor Sheridan reveals that there is another reason why she is not returning for the sequel titled 'Soldado'.
- November 26, 2016
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It was reported back in June that Emily Blunt wouldn't be back as FBI Agent Kate Macer in "Soldado", the sequel to Denis Villeneuve's "Sicario". Aside from her pregnancy and being busy preparing to work on "Mary Poppins Returns", screenwriter Tayor Sheridan reveals "her arc was complete." He told TheWrap that he "couldn't figure out a way to write a character that would do her talent justice."
"Look what she went through," the scribe added. "It was a difficult role. Here I write this lead character and then I use her as a surrogate for the audience. I make her completely passive against her own will so the audience feels the same impotence that a lot of law enforcement officers feel, I drag her through hell, and betray her in the end. It was an arduous journey for the character, and for Emily. That character had arc."
"Soldado" is currently filming, with Stefano Sollima serving as a director, and Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin returning as Alejandro and Matt Graver respectively. While the "Sicario" sequel won't hit U.S. theaters until 2017, Sheridan recently told LRM Online that a threequel was already on the table, with a plan to work on it before the second movie comes out. He said, "It was in early post."
He explained, "When [Trent Luckinbill] and [Molly Smith], the financiers and producers on it, when they asked me, 'Hey, we love these characters so much. Is there anything you could do to continue exploring them?' and I said, 'Yeah, I'd love to. Here's what I would do. I had thought about it before' and they said, 'That's great, let's do that.' And that was the end of the conversation."
