The director behind Netflix’s sensational thriller Carry-On, Jaume Collet-Serra, has weighed in on the buzz around a potential sequel following the film’s soaring success. With a star cast led by Taron Egerton, the film clocked up a staggering 149.4 million views in just the first four weeks of release, claiming the fifth spot in Netflix’s most-watched English language films.
It’s hot on the heels of Sandra Bullock’s hit Bird Box, which notched up 157.4 million views post its pre-Christmas release. The gripping tale follows an airport security agent caught in a high-stakes blackmail that risks the lives of plane passengers on Christmas Eve, reports the Mirror.
Amid the flurry of festive viewership, the film attracted mounds of acclaim, triggering calls for Netflix to consider a sequel. Speaking with Variety, although acknowledging there’s no active plan for a follow-up, Collet-Serra expressed openness to the possibility, admitting: “We don’t have any plans for a sequel.”
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He elaborated on conditions that might change that stance, adding: “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.”
The acclaimed director, whose credits include Orphan and The Shallows, shared that the praise he’s received from audiences over the film has been substantial.
“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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