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Released in December 2022, Troll has turn into certainly one of Netflix’s greatest non-English motion pictures of all time, and now we’ve discovered that the teases on the finish of the primary movie weren’t in useless. We’re getting a sequel to the Norweigen film Troll on Netflix.
Directed by Roar Uthaug, the catastrophe fantasy film takes pages from Norwegian folklore and explores what occurs after a troll is woke up after being free of the mountains.
Variety broke the information of the sequel order on September nineteenth, 2023, stating that director Uthaug would return to direct the sequel with author Espen Aukan and producers Espen Horn and Kristian Strand Sinkerud additionally boarded.
Director Roar Uthaug will return to direct the sequel
They state that manufacturing will start in 2024, suggesting a late 2024 or, extra possible, a 2025 Netflix launch date is feasible on the earliest.
The film isn’t problemed by the continuing Hollywood strikes given it’s an area manufacturing to Norway. Motion Blur is the manufacturing firm behind the film.
Shortly after the discharge of Troll in December 2022, the director and producers teased to us that extra may very well be on the playing cards. The producers advised us they “have ambitions to make a sequel and perhaps two sequels, but it all depends on how the audience are responding to [the film].”
When pressed, they mentioned, “This has been a great collaboration with Roar and Netflix and we’d love to do it again.”
The return of the film ought to be no shock as even on the time of publishing, it stays Netflix’s greatest non-English language film in its historical past. On each the newer 91-day metric and the older 28-day metric, the film is the most watched when it comes to uncooked viewing hours:
- In the primary 91-days, Troll had 178.600M watch hours (that interprets to 103M accomplished viewing equivalents)
- In the older first 28-day metric, Troll had 155M international hours watched.
What will occur in Troll 2 on Netflix?
After an journey throughout Norway, the navy and the scientists lastly realized that the Trolls are weak to direct daylight. After making a “troll trap,” they lure him with the cranium of a troll child into an open house. While they determine to not kill the troll with their tools, the rising solar finally ends up killing him anyway.
Just earlier than the credit, one thing seems to start rising with a roar from the rubble contained in the Dovre mountain cave. Is it the slain Trolls household or one thing greater? Andreas and Nora did speculate that extra trolls may nonetheless be alive deep inside Norway’s mountains. Thankfully, we’re going to get to search out out.
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