Haha, yes I went there. Let me explain.
So, back at the end of January, Production Weekly announced that The Old Guard 2: Force Multiplied was in Active Development. The fandom went wild, because that was the first time we had some sort of confirmation.
Then, in April during an Instagram AMA, Matthias Schoenaerts (Booker) answered a fan question regarding whether there were plans for The Old Guard 2. His answer was a very big YES.
On June 15th, Greg Rucka, co-creator and writer of The Old Guard (both comic and film) said during an interview that the script was done and in the hands of Netflix. He also implied that there would be an announcement in a few weeks.
By the way, that interview came on the heels of the massively disappointing “Netflix Geeked Week”, which I did a write up on earlier this month. Basically Rucka just got the fans to put away their pitchforks because TOG had been in one of the press releases, and then never made an appearance during the week long live stream. We all now believe that contracts were being finished.
And that now leads to now.
On Monday, someone decided to start a movement called TOG Takeover. Each day, fans of The Old Guard would tweet an answer to a prompt, while also tagging Netflix and Skydance. It’s been pretty popular, and growing each day. I’ve been taking part, and keeping up with everything while I’ve been dying of my lovely sunburn (which is getting better, finally).
So there I was yesterday, standing in line at Michaels to buy a planner, when Twitter started to explode. Now, I was just expecting another slew of retweets of people’s responses to TOG Takeover. No, not five minutes prior, Variety.com published a blurb for their “Just for Variety” column.
The title was this: Charlize Theron Says ‘Old Guard’ Sequel Script Complete, Filming to Begin Early Next Year (EXCLUSIVE) (If anyone wants to see it in full, here is the link.)
You can probably imagine how Twitter reacted.
Yes, it’s been a damn party.
Like 99% of the posts from the hour after that little blurb came out were people screaming, thanking everyone and their personal God, and basically losing their collective minds. It was beautiful. It was also hilarious, but that’s just because of how many people said the same thing within seconds of each other.
Basically, we have had everyone except for Netflix confirm the damn sequel at this point. Two actors, the writer, and hell, a production announcement. Will we get an announcement? At this point, I’m not waiting for one. We’ll probably hear something at the end of 2021, or maybe before/as filming starts in 2022.
But suffice to say, TOG Takeover technically worked. Name another fandom that had a complete meltdown over sixty one words. (Then again, we all died over the 145 words in Joe’s “van speech”, so I shouldn’t be talking.
So, yeah. I’m a very happy person right now.
Until next time!
