Gerard Butler will step back into his hard-drinking LA County Sheriff unit leader ‘Big Nick’ O’Brien role from 2018’s heist film “Den of Thieves” in an upcoming sequel.
Recently out doing promotional rounds for Joe Carnahan’s “CopShop,” the action star says not only is “Den of Thieves 2” happening but they’ve already got shoot dates and some elaborate international location work planned.
The new film will reportedly pick up where the first movie left off as Big Nick tracking down O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s Donnie. He tells Unilad:
“We’re supposed to shoot early next year. We’re Europe-bound, we’re still on the hunt for Donnie who’s now on the diamond district in Marseilles. I go over to hunt him down, but with different intentions than you might imagine. So we’re gonna be in Marseilles, the Alps and London – it’s definitely a more glamorous journey than the last one, and probably a more fun, sexy journey.”
The comments come as it has been revealed Butler reportedly managed to injure three different people in separate accidents in one day of filming of “Copshop” according to Movieweb.
Butler says he smacked a stunt guy’s head on some lockers and split it open, another stunt man dodged an attack from Butler and ended up knocking his head into a pillar, and finally co-star Ryan O’Nan was hit in the stomach with a stun gun. All three have reportedly made full recoveries from their injuries.
“CopShop” arrives on September 17th. The “Den of Thieves” sequel has yet to set a date.