Leitch worked off an adaptation script by Kurt Johnstad. It was also the solo directorial debut of David Leitch, the uncredited co-director of 2014 franchise-launching genre breakthrough John Wick, and eventual director of 2018’s Deadpool ’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Based on British writer Antony Johnston’s 2012 graphic novel, The Coldest City, Theron starred as scintillating spy Lorraine Broughton whose exploits as an MI6 operative during the end of the Cold War was defined by bloodshed and sexual fluidity amidst a neo-noir onscreen tone. Released on July 28, 2017, Atomic Blonde came to the table as a potentially transformative action offering with star Theron, who came into the film with newly-christened action star gravitas off her awe-inspiring action performance as Furiosa in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. The bar’s pretty high, but we’re excited about it.” So, I feel like there’s a lot of potential there. That character was set up in a way where she didn’t really reveal much of herself. We talked to him about it extensively, and we’re in the process of writing it right now.
“We took to them and Scott Stuber, was really interested in it. “We went into talking about as a possibility, and it’s definitely something that excites us,” she explains. Indeed, while there’s no news to cite for The Old Guard 2, Theron does reveal that she successfully pitched the once-mooted Atomic Blonde sequel-having also served as a producer on the original film-to Netflix through Scott Stuber, Head of Original Films. However, rather than immediately following up that film, said offering will be a sequel to Atomic Blonde, the stylish Theron-headlined 2017 late-Cold-War spy thriller.
Atomic Blonde 2 is, in a surprise reveal, a thing that’s happening… on Netflix, no less.Ĭharlize Theron, whose Netflix sci-fi action thriller, The Old Guard, just arrived on July 10, has revealed plans in an interview with Total Film to field another action offering for the streaming giant.