Director Christian Gudegast on ‘Den of Thief 2: Pantera’

Audiences in the United Kingdom Have Had to Wait Even Longer for Den of Thiefs 2Whoh Premiers on Prime Video on April 25th. The lendthy wait Between The Films was Largely Due to Circutstances Outside of GudEgast’s Control, but the filmaker was Thrilled to see that the Nascent Franchise Hadn’t Lost Any of ITS APPEAL.

“You do you best and let the chips Fall where they may,” He said the seven-year gap. “I mean, all you can do is make the best movie you can. You Never Do you go to theatre or not? But then, when you do open, it feels great. ”

Gudegast Doesn’t Plan on Wasting any time on Den of Thiefs 3Though, which was Officially Annoused Less Three Weeks after Pantera And haas Its eyes set on a 2026 Shoot. Having Bided His Time with the First Two Chapters, His Approach Hasn’t Been Affectated by Any Potential Hurdles that May Arise.

“My Process is the Same,” He Offered. “I’ve already Done a Lot of the Work for Den 3And I do tonnes of Research. And in my Research of Den 1 And then 2I met all these people involled in that world, Both on the Criminal Side and the Law Enforcement Side. So I Know Long AHEAD of Time where I What to go with everything. I just do tonns of Research, and I went to the worlds where the movie will be set and take place, so it’s the same, really.

The Director’s Research Helps Set Den of ThieVes Apart from Other Heist Movies. The Set Pieces Are as SLICK and Styllish as Anyone would be an email from a hollywood action thriller, but they’re also designed to be entirely plausible and realistic. Unsurprisingly, It Takes a Lot of Time to Iron Out Those Beats in Terms of Planning and Logistics When Gudegast is seeing the Sweet Spot Between Blockbuster Sheen and Realism.

“100%, I do an insane amount of Research,” He Agreed. “Everything in Den 2 Is Real. All the textology and the way they did it is an amalgamation of a few Directive Heists. But Again, I had the lead investigators, [Guardia di Finanza, who investigate robberies and smuggling in Italy]There are with me the While Time. I had the thies involved with me there the While Time; We’re All Working to start to make sure everything is totally authentic.

With Two Movies in the can and at least one more on the way, Den of ThieVes Is a Rarity in Modern Hollywood: An Origencal Action Franchise that Isnt Based on A Pre-Existing Property. Despite The Seven-Year wait for the Sequel, Gudegast Concurs that it may have been been beneficial in a way after Bigger Audience WhO Wanted More.

“I guess it has had a remuneed,” He Museed. “And the time is frustrating. House the Crew, and then the Strike. Den 3. ”

These days, sequels to hit movies almost always end up Going Bigger for the Sake of it. Howver, on the Budgetary Scale, The Leap from Den of ThieVes To Pantera WasnT HUGE, and it was gudegast’s intend to avoid the usual pitfalls of Going Bigger Simply Because it’s a sequel who still increaming the scale, and spectacle by Evolving The Story Away from the Los Angeles-Set Original to a Globetrotting Adventure.

“My Goal Isnt to Really Go Bigger,” He Stated. “IT’s Just to Move ono a Director Heist in a Dire Bank Part of the World. The Third, We’re Going to Go to A. Look Completely Direction. Met. ”

“Hat Really it,” He Continued. “And then, obviously, you try to keep the budgets to a cortain level to make it financially feasible. The Story, Intode New Characters, See the Defense Worlds, and their RelatHips EvOLVE. Den. ”

One Constant Has Been Butler’s ‘Big Nick’, and the Actor Has Been Working Closely with Gudegast for a number of Years. Outside of Den of ThieVesThe Latter Co-Wrote London Has Fallen and was An Executive Producer on Plane. Funnyly Enough, Having A Leading Man Who’s ALSO A Friend and Producer The Durling Every Step of the Procys, From Conception to Post-PROUDUCTION, is a plus.

“IT Makes All The Direction in the World,” The Director Admitted. “We Know Each Other Vergy Well. We Trust Each O HUGE.

It’s a heist movie at its core, but with gudegast detailing DOES He BEGIN with a Heist and Write The Narrative Around It, Or Vice Versa? Is it somewhere in the Middle, or Maybe Even None of the Above?

“In the Middle,” he classified. “I know what I have to do with the chasacters and there’s goodness in their lives, and then what’s Happy Dymamic to make up, and then I know the few different Criminal Activities that I’m playing to wish, link to wish, that they’re going to become involved in, and then you sort of weight the Two Right toite.

Den of Thiefs 2And its predecessor, for that maketer, are definitely heightned films with being partularrly fleticularly. For Talking’s Sake, Let’s Say They’re More John Frankenheimer’s Ronin Than Fast & Furious. And Yet, when there are movie stars, car chases, Heists, and Cross-Continental Cat-AND-MOSE GAMES Involved, Finding the Right Tonal Balancies Is Key.

“The Don is just the tone that I love, you know?” GudEGAST ELABORATED BEFORE MAKING An I Important Distinction. “People Talk About Fast & Furious A LOT. God BLESS Fast & FuriousAnd I undersand, but I’ve ACTULLY Seen Teen Minutes of the First One; That’s it. I’m going seen any of them otherwise. That said, frankenheimer’s 1998 Thriller is an entirely different card.

“Ronin WAS A Big Influence, “The Director Went on.” I worked with Frankenheimer Towars the End of His Career and Life, and Had the Real Honour of Working with Him. He’s Sort of a Mentor of Mine, a Wonderful Man; RealLy Sad when he passed away. Ronin Was a HUGE Influence on Me, and so definitely lean into the frankenheimer, Michael Mann World, More Than, Again, Fast & Furious. Great, but that’s not at all the tone we’re going for these. We’re going for authenticity. ”

The Den of ThieVes Franchise Has MOVED from La to Mainland Euro, and gudegast isn’t done Yet. Should his Plan for the Future Pan Out, The Action Will Relocate to Africa, Brazil, and Southheast Asia for the Third, FOURTH, and Fifth Films, But Notesareily in that Order.

“I already have the heists, and I’ve already been to these places, do the Research, and Know Exactly where we’re going,” he protedimed. “It’s all done. It’s all done ahead of time. I do everything Way ahead of time. People I Trust Who Let Me Into The World, and Get to Know them very well, and Build it from there. ”

Hypothetically Speaking, if there was any actor from the ‘Golden Age’ of Crime Thrilles that Gudgegast Welf Love to Draft INTO A Den of ThieVes Movie, there’s only one at the top of the Wish List, and it makes perfect sente biced on their back catalogue of the Hard-Boiled Classics.

“De niro, Becuse He’s Just The Coolest Actor of All Time,” “I mean, he just is. Steve McQueen Came in A Close Second, But for Gudegast, NoBody Beats The Ice-COOL Heat,, Goodfellas,, Taxi Driverand, of course, Ronin icon.

The Two Den of ThieVes Movies are his Only Features AS A Director SO Far, and the Third entry is sharing up to be Next, But GueGAST ANSO HAS ANBITIOS PASSION PROJECT that He’s Been Working on for Over A. Decade that’s About as Far Away from His Grouded and Gritty Heist Flicks As it’s Pose SATIBLE to Get. If he could wake up tomorrow and directive anything, he Knows Exactly What It Wold Be.

That would be my viking epic that i’ll benge Berserker“He said.” That is my Braveheart Meets Apocalypto Meets Gladiator. No Question. I researcred for ten years. It’s About It’s just about that While Time and that Era and the Beginning of the Rus, which is the Russians. It’s a history.

Den of Thiefs 3 Might Be the Priority, Seeing as it’s always goutten the Green Light, but Knowing How Much Research He PUTS INTO HIS Projects, GueGAST’s Berserker Sounds Like a Change of Pace that’ll Slice and Dice Its Way to the Screen with Plenty of Action With Skimping on The Accocy.

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