MOVIE: Sicario Sequel Soldado Brings Catherine Keener On Board

 

Report has it that actress Catherine Keener has climbed aboard Soldado, the embryonic action sequel to last year’s visceral narcotics thriller Sicario. Joining forces with Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, Keener has landed the role of Brolin’s superior, and together they’ll work to police the network of Mexican tunnels used by drug lords to cross the border into America.

Brolin’s questionable CIA agent Matt Graver is by no means a straight shooter, so it’ll be interesting to see which side of the moral spectrum Keener’s boss character hails from. Denis Villeneuve won’t direct Soldado; instead, that mantle has been passed to newcomer Stefano Sollima, who will be directing from a script penned by Taylor Sheridan following his work on the nail-biting original. Benicio Del Toro, meanwhile, will be stepping back into the delightfully dark role of Alejandro Gillick, a magnetic, shadowy enforcer.

Should the pieces fall into place, Soldado could be the second entry into a trilogy of anthology movies, with Villeneuve and Taylor Sheridan seemingly already drafting up story ideas for a third movie.