Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to 2015’s Sicario, will feature a great deal more slapstick humour than the original.
Sicario was highly praised for it’s realistic and visceral depiction of US attempts to disrupt the Mexican drug cartels, however many felt that it should have featured more pratfalls, pie-in-the-face gags and buckets of water falling on people’s heads.
“Yeah, it was a shame that the first one didn’t get the slapstick aspect that it deserved,” said actor Josh Brolin, who returns for the sequel.
“We had filmed a lovely moment where Emily [Blunt]’s character is introduced to my task force and she slips on a banana skin. It was terrific, Emily can really land a pratfall, but sadly it didn’t make the edit.
“Looking back at that picture, the lack of slapstick does seem to distract from what is otherwise some really fine work.”
However, it appears that producers don’t intend to make the same mistake with the sequel with producers planning eye pokes, face slaps, and a spectacular stair-fall over three storeys.
“Yeah, I think we’ve really nailed the marriage of intense, harrowing crime drama and broad physical comedy with Day of the Soldado,” claims Brolin, proudly.
“A piece where my task-force and some cartel goons get gunged and then slide around in the gunge and try to fight in the gunge is- well, it’s one for the ages, it really is.”
Inspired by Day of the Soldado’s plans, it is understood that Smiley’s People, the planned sequel to 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, should feature many more knob gags and fart jokes than the original.
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