The director of Netflix’s hit thriller Carry-On has spoken out about a potential sequel, as the film has landed among the platform’s most-watched movies.
Starring Taron Egerton, the action drama had a total of 149.4 million views within its first four weeks, ranking in fifth-place on the streamer’s most-watched English language movies list.
It sits just below Sandra Bullock’s 2018 thriller Bird Box, which was similarly released ahead of the Christmas period, and boast 157.4 million views.
The plot follows an airport security agent who is blackmailed into allowing a deadly package on-board a plane on Christmas Eve.
As viewers tuned in during the festive period, the mystery drama received overwhelming praise, with many urging the streaming giant to release a sequel.
Now, director Jaume Collet-Serra has confirmed that there are no plans for a follow-up movie.
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Speaking to Variety, he said: “We don’t have any plans for a sequel.” However, the filmmaker is not closing the door on a potential part two.
“But if audiences wanted a sequel, families wanted a sequel and if we had an idea that would spark and live up to the original maybe we would do something. But right now, there are no plans,” he added.
Collet-Serra, best known for directing Orphan and The Shallows, admitted that beyond the film’s overwhelming success, he has garnered “a lot” of praise from audiences.
“I started getting a lot of calls and texts from friends and people who didn’t know I directed it. They didn’t know until they saw the credits and they were sending me texts that they loved it. I think at that moment I knew the movie was finding an audience and connecting to it,” he shared.
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Carry-On has earned a certified fresh 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics consensus stating that “Taron Egerton and an against-type Jason Bateman make for great adversaries in Carry-On, a throwback thriller that clears all checkpoints of plot logic with its confident execution.”
Its ensemble is completed by Jason Bateman as the threatening traveller; Sofia Carson as Egerton’s on-screen girlfriend and Danielle Deadwyler as a sharp-eyed detective investigating the looming terrorist attack.
Carry-On is available to stream now on Netflix.
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