Upcoming Mystery Sequels You Didn’t Know Were In The Works – TheShockNews

Everybody loves thriller, from placing collectively the clues to making an attempt to maintain observe of the double crosses. All of the whilst you wish to remedy the thriller earlier than the reply is revealed, however you’re additionally type of hoping you’re mistaken so the film can shock you ultimately. From conventional whodunits to different genres of movie which have a thriller ingredient, there are many films on the market that preserve us guessing. However maybe the largest puzzle to resolve is realizing which thriller films are on the way in which, and whether or not they’ll be worthy of including to the prevailing pantheon of the most effective thriller films of all time.

From thriller sequence which can be slowly turning into ongoing franchises, to those who solely have one installment underneath their detective gadget belt so far, these are the flicks which have formally been confirmed to be in some stage of manufacturing. They run the gamut from conventional thriller tales starring legendary sleuths, to extra trendy takes on the style for people who need somewhat extra pleasure to boost the gathering of clues and inspecting of proof. 

It’s additionally price noting that a few of these films have already got confirmed titles, and we’ll use these when relevant — however in any other case, we’ll merely seek advice from the film because the identify of the earlier entry, with the subsequent quantity after the title to maintain issues easy. 

In 2009, filmmaker Man Ritchie introduced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective to the display screen in “Sherlock Holmes,” with Robert Downey Jr. offering probably the greatest on-screen variations of Holmes, alongside Jude Regulation as his trustworthy assistant Watson. It was Ritchie’s most profitable film on the field workplace as much as that time, and a sequel appeared all however assured — with “Sherlock Holmes: A Sport of Shadows” popping out simply two years later. Even earlier than it was launched, the announcement had already been made {that a} third movie was being written. 

After all, that was 13 years in the past at this level. It’s been tough going for “Sherlock Holmes 3,” with script rewrites, deliberate manufacturing begin dates that got here and went, Ritchie himself ultimately bowing out, after which the COVID-19 pandemic placing the undertaking on seemingly indefinite hiatus. Nevertheless, after a couple of extra years of silence, 2023 introduced recent information concerning the long-delayed undertaking: Downey’s spouse and producing associate Susan Downey confirmed that the film continues to be being labored on, telling TheWrap that it’s “a precedence for Robert.” 

We nonetheless don’t know precisely after we’ll see the third installment — particularly now that Downey is engaged on his massive return to the MCU — however so long as Downey stays obsessed with being Holmes once more, we now have confidence that we’ll. 

“Now You See Me” is an creative heist movie constructed round a gaggle of stage magicians who use their talent at performative misdirection to rob banks and the like — although it’s ultimately revealed that they achieve this for a extra noble goal than initially assumed. The spectacular ensemble included Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine, with all however Fisher returning for sequel — maybe owing to her nightmare on-set expertise filming the unique. Instead of Fisher, “Now You See Me 2” added Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Radcliffe into the combination for one more advanced and mysterious plan by the altruistic illusionists.

In 2015, a yr earlier than the discharge of “Now You See Me 2,” it was already revealed that the sequence was destined to be a trilogy. Issues went quiet for a bit, however encouraging updates in each 2020 and 2022 confirmed that “Now You See Me 3” remained in lively improvement. After one other two years, Eisenberg gave essentially the most hopeful information on the undertaking in years when he confirmed that he had learn the completed script and that he anticipated to be on set inside six months. The following months noticed reveals of assorted solid members each new and returning, with July 2024 lastly bringing the official announcement to anticipate “Now You See Me 3” in November 2025. 

Although not an enormous field workplace hit just like the earlier entries on this listing, thriller crime drama “Den of Thieves” nonetheless discovered a sufficiently big viewers to have earned itself an upcoming sequel. The unique stars Gerard Butler as a detective named “Massive Nick” O’Brien who’s tasked with bringing down a harmful prison group comprised of former United States Marines, the principle members of that are performed by O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, and 50 Cent. 

Although a “Den of Thieves” sequel was seemingly fast-tracked, having been introduced only a month after the film’s January 2018 launch, it will take a while for the second movie to come back collectively. In the course of the Could 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant, distributor Briarcliff Leisure introduced it will be dealing with the U.S. launch of “Den of Thieves: Pantera,” with Butler confirmed to be returning as Massive Nick someday within the fourth quarter of 2024. Lionsgate subsequently took over the distribution rights for “Pantera,” with the film now set to debut in theaters in January 2025. Butler advised Inverse of the sequel, “This one’s much more enjoyable.” 

With the “Scream” franchise being about as lively in the previous couple of years because it’s ever been, and “Remaining Vacation spot” set to make its return in 2025, it was inevitable that extra of its friends additionally come again to the massive display screen. Certain sufficient, the “I Know What You Did Final Summer season” sequence has a fourth entry within the works, marking its first new film installment since 2006’s “I’ll At all times Know What You Did Final Summer season.” 

However in contrast to that movie, which was a standalone sequel that didn’t convey again any solid members from the primary two films, “I Know What You Did Final Summer season 4” (working title, clearly) is about to have Jennifer Love Hewitt return to reprise her position as Julie James. As of July 2024, fellow OG solid member Freddie Prinze Jr. had not but formally joined the solid, however he was nonetheless actively in talks to take action. Little is thought concerning the plot, aside from that it’s going to canonically connect with the primary two movies — which discover a group of teenagers stalked by a killer who might or is probably not the identical man they struck with their automotive one night time and thought was useless — and won’t be a complete reboot as beforehand speculated. 

It’s unclear how far alongside the film is, nevertheless it was nonetheless getting updates by way of September 2024, so it at the least appears to lastly be in manufacturing after a few years of improvement hell. 

“With out Regret,” Tom Clancy’s 1993 novel a few Navy SEAL making an attempt to piece collectively the explanations behind varied tragic occasions which have befallen him, was purported to be tailored right into a film proper alongside the writer’s different Jack Ryan-verse movie variations of the ’90s — nevertheless it wasn’t to be. One other try at a “With out Regret” movie was undertaken within the early 2010s, however that too fell aside. The third time finally proved to be the attraction when the undertaking was revived in 2017, ultimately nabbing Michael B. Jordan for the lead position. “With out Regret” lastly noticed the sunshine of day on Prime Video in 2021.

In actual fact, Jordan had signed on to seem in two related Tom Clancy films, with “With out Regret” serving extra as an introduction to Jordan’s character and setting the stage for a movie based mostly on the better-known “Rainbow Six.” Previous to this, “Rainbow Six” had been tailored right into a sequence of video video games, however hadn’t but gotten the movie therapy. Whereas the “With out Regret” and “Rainbow Six” books really star two totally different characters, the “Rainbow Six” film has been retooled a bit to star John Kelly from “With out Regret” quite than John Clark from the “Rainbow Six” novel. 

Confused? It wouldn’t be Tom Clancy if it didn’t require unraveling a twisty thriller. As to after we’ll lastly see it, issues have been a bit quiet on the progress of “Rainbow Six” since 2023, however there’s nothing to counsel it isn’t nonetheless on the way in which. 

Although heavy on the motion and thrills, 2016’s “The Accountant” nonetheless has loads of thriller to it by the use of the protagonist Christian (Ben Affleck), who has to determine why his newest shopper is making an attempt to maintain thousands and thousands of {dollars} off their account ledger — and why persons are being killed to guard that secret. Critics praised the efficiency of Affleck however had been much less impressed with the remainder of the film. Nonetheless, it did very effectively on the worldwide field workplace and was a moneymaker on house video, with a sequel introduced the next yr.

Resulting from hit theaters in April 2025, “The Accountant 2” brings again many of the principal solid from the unique, together with Affleck, J. Ok. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. Although he received’t be within the solid, Affleck’s longtime pal and inventive associate Matt Damon has signed on to co-produce the sequel alongside Affleck, neither of whom produced the primary. In 2021, Gavin O’Connor — who directed the unique and can also be helming the sequel — revealed that the plan is to finally have an “Accountant” trilogy, although as of but solely “The Accountant 2” has been formally introduced. It can probably rely on what numbers that film does to see if a 3rd installment will get on the books.

Should you’ve been questioning what former “The O.C.” star Mischa Barton has been as much as these days, then you definately clearly missed out on her 2023 flip as Agatha Christie-obsessed florist-turned-amateur sleuth Miranda Inexperienced in “Invitation to a Homicide.” Set in Thirties England, “Invitation to a Homicide” opts for traditional whodunit vibes, which is considerably refreshing for a style that appears principally all in favour of trendy reinvention nowadays.  

True to the authors and franchises that it was clearly impressed by, it will appear that “Invitation to a Homicide” isn’t a one and executed for Ms. Inexperienced. In actual fact, the franchise already has a reputation — the “Miranda Inexperienced Mysteries” — with two extra titles within the works which can be each due out in 2025. It’s an bold enterprise to make sure, however once more, we don’t see sufficient of a majority of these films anymore, so right here’s hoping Miranda Inexperienced will get to maintain fixing mysteries for years to come back. Get out your magnifying glass and preserve an eye fixed out for “Homicide on the Embassy” and “The Thriller of the Golden Spear” subsequent yr.

2019 was a turning level for film variations of video video games, because it noticed the discharge of not simply the primary however the first and second online game films to ever have optimistic Rotten Tomatoes scores. However because it beat “The Indignant Birds Film 2” to theaters, “Detective Pikachu” will get to say the excellence of the first-ever critic-approved online game film adaptation. “Detective Pikachu” additionally set the brand new home field workplace report for online game variations, despite the fact that it will later be bested by “Uncharted” and the primary two “Sonic the Hedgehog” films.  

Even so, with $144 million home and $429 million worldwide making it one of many highest-grossing online game films of all time, “Detective Pikachu” greater than had the numbers to justify a sequel. In actual fact, a second movie was already within the works earlier than the primary film even began breaking data. However progress was sluggish — so sluggish, in actual fact, that “Detective Pikachu” star Justice Smith mentioned in 2021 that he was now not optimistic that the follow-up was nonetheless occurring. 

However 2023 introduced an replace that “Portlandia” co-creator Jonathan Krisel was being courted to direct the sequel, confirming that it was nonetheless an lively undertaking. That continues to be the final official information on “Detective Pikachu 2,” however that was solely final yr — so there’s no cause to lose hope simply but. 

Sherlock Holmes has been fairly busy on each the massive and small display screen of late, and that doesn’t appear to be stopping any time quickly. Along with the upcoming Robert Downey Jr. sequel and sporadic rumblings of a fifth season of the BBC’s Benedict Cumberbatch-led “Sherlock” nonetheless being a risk sometime, there may be additionally the potential third installment to Netflix’s personal distinctive spin on the property, “Enola Holmes.”

Millie Bobby Brown performs the titular Enola, the teenaged sister of Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill), who’s making an attempt to make a reputation for herself within the sleuthing sport. Different members of the Holmes clan are concerned as effectively, from oldest sibling Mycroft Holmes (Sam Claflin) to matriarch Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter). The films provide a lighter, funnier, and extra family-friendly angle to the basic franchise, with Cavill enjoying a a lot kinder and fewer cynical model of Sherlock than is typical of portrayals of the character. 2022’s “Enola Holmes 2” stays the latest installment so far, however November 2023 introduced affirmation {that a} script for a 3rd movie was within the works. 

In August 2024, it was reported that “Enola Holmes 3” was set to start filming in early 2025. On condition that Brown named Enola Holmes as an important undertaking of her profession, it appears fairly probably she’ll be reprising the position, although no casting particulars have been formally revealed as of but.

After co-writing and directing “Physician Unusual,” Scott Derrickson had already begun engaged on its sequel earlier than inventive variations induced him to desert the undertaking — which was subsequently restarted with director Sam Raimi, who ultimately delivered 2022’s “Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.” In the meantime, Derrickson and longtime collaborator C. Robert Cargill switched their efforts to horror thriller “The Black Cellphone,” based mostly on Joe Hill’s brief story of the identical identify.

The story of a mysterious youngster kidnapper identified solely as The Grabber in Nineteen Seventies Colorado, the modestly-budgeted thriller ended up being a shock field workplace hit and one of many first post-pandemic theatrical success tales. In August 2022, Derrickson started hinting at a sequel and saying that the studio was pushing for one after how effectively the primary “Black Cellphone” had executed. “The Black Cellphone 2” was ultimately introduced, with many of the unique solid returning — together with Grabber portrayer Ethan Hawke — and the movie aiming for a June 2025 launch. However with manufacturing firm Blumhouse’s 2025 slate ultimately getting way more crowded, “The Black Cellphone 2” has since been pushed again a bit and is now set to reach in October 2025 as a substitute. 

Known as a “trendy mommy noir” in its Rotten Tomatoes consensus on the way in which to a licensed recent 84%, 2018’s “A Easy Favor” noticed director Paul Feig persevering with his streak of creative hybrid comedies — including thriller comedy to his filmography alongside sci-fi comedy (“Ghostbusters”) and espionage comedy (“Spy”). Starring Blake Vigorous and Anna Kendrick as unlikely pals who bond over sharing sordid secrets and techniques about their pasts — secrets and techniques that, in fact, will come again to solid a darkish and harmful shadow over their current — “A Easy Favor” did respectable field workplace numbers contemplating its pretty modest $20 million finances, and ultimately noticed a sequel announcement in 2022.

Feig, Vigorous, and Kendrick are all set to return for “A Easy Favor 2,” with the one factor identified concerning the story is that it’s positioned as a direct sequel to the unique. “A Easy Favor” was the one latest Feig movie to land on critics’ good sides amidst a trio of panned disappointments, which may be why “A Easy Favor 2” will probably be his first-ever sequel. Vigorous may additionally use some optimistic PR herself nowadays, with awkward interviews coming again to hang-out her and different latest controversies which were plaguing the actress. There’s no timeline but for the discharge of “A Easy Plan 2,” however Feig confirmed that filming had wrapped in Could 2024, so it shouldn’t be a very lengthy wait.

Arguably the largest ongoing thriller movie franchise proper now could be the “Knives Out” sequence, which so far contains the 2019 unique and its 2022 sequel, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller.” The one actual connecting thread between writer-director Rian Johnson’s films is quirky detective Benoit Blanc, performed by Daniel Craig — additionally the one actor to seem in each movies to date. And Blanc is about to return as soon as once more in “Wake Up Useless Man,” scheduled to hit Netflix someday in 2025.

Just like the earlier two Benoit Blanc mysteries, “Wake Up Useless Man” will once more function a brand new solid of characters performed by a wholly recent set of actors. This time, the ensemble of suspects contains Josh Brolin, Glenn Shut, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, and Thomas Haden Church, amongst others. Nothing is thought concerning the plot, however anticipate a whole lot of twists and double- and triple-crosses as Blanc has to as soon as once more remedy what the title suggests will probably be one other homicide. It appears as if Craig doesn’t but have the identical franchise fatigue he in a short time started to expertise whereas enjoying James Bond, telling Variety in 2022 of future “Knives Out” sequels: “If (Rian) retains writing them, I’ll preserve doing them.”