“You know what? That movie, honestly, I’ll just tell you really quick, when I first saw it I was like, ‘Okay, it’s a good movie and I think we need to trim some things. We need to do this, and this, and that to it.’ Everybody else had their notes and then when they saw the final cut it’s a really good movie. I’m really excited about it. I was actually surprised at how good it turned out.”
When pressed for more details about how
Soldado compares to its predecessor, Brolin says:
“I think it’s just more severe, man. All the way around. I think the characters are more severe. I think the movie is more severe. I think it’s just much bigger. It’s just a bigger scope film. Like I said, when I saw it it was like Sicario felt like a small movie to me, even though it was a very intimate movie. I’ve always said I don’t understand why bigger movies can’t be just as intimate, if not more intimate. Why do they have to be less emotional? I think Soldado‘s a perfect example of that. I think it’s extremely emotional. I think it’s extremely tense and it deals with similar subject matters.
Sicario was directed by Denis Villeneuve, but the filmmaker had to hand over the reins of the sequel to Stefano Sollima when he became attached to
Blade Runner 2049. Taylor Sheridan returned to write the script, however – which is something Brolin feels was a vital ingredient to
Soldado working:
I kind of felt the same way [with Soldado], and maybe that all stems from Taylor Sheridan’s writing and the fact that you can only f*** up his scripts to a certain extent, but it’s still going to be a good movie because maybe it does all start with the script.
There has yet to be a trailer or any image released for the film, but on the basis of Brolin’s words,
Soldado may just live up to the quality of its predecessor. If all goes well, there could even be a third movie too.