A sequel to screenwriter Steven Knight and director David Cronenberg‘s London-based Russian crime film Eastern Promises has been in the offing for quite some time now, but some new information has come to light that suggest that a 2017 start date is being plotted.
The original film was released all of the way back in 2007, and revolved around Viggo Mortensen‘s Nikolai Luzhin, a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The casting site myentertainmentworld.com reports the news, and says that it will be titled Body Cross. It also gives us an official synopsis.
The sequel picks up where the 2007 film left off – with the incompetent underboss Kirill thinking that he and his henchman driver Nikolai really have inherited the throne from his crime-lord father, without knowing that Nikolai is actually a clandestine agent working undercover in Russia’s federal security service.
This is far from official word, and there is no mention as to the creative team that’s involved, but intriguing nonetheless. More as we get it.
