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Exclusive: How Sicario: Day of the Soldado Continues the Story of Sicario

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, producer Molly Smith, and director Stefano Sollima discuss the film’s function as a spinoff of Sicario.

Exclusive: How Sicario: Day of the Soldado Continues the Story of Sicario
Photo: Columbia Pictures

Continuing the bullet-riddled adventures of lawyer turned mercenary Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) and Department of Justice consultant Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a lugubrious procedural about employees on both sides of the law whose allegiances to their employers have submerged them in a state of psychological blankness, their ethics or ideals displaced by the directive of accomplishing their missions by whatever means necessary. The structure of the film, directed by Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan, is in lockstep with characters who find themselves shuffled from one locale to another, the protocol of their jobs interrupted and contradicted by the whims of their superiors.

In the exclusive clip below, del Toro, Brolin, Sollima, and producer Molly Smith discuss Sicario: Day of the Soldado’s function as both a standalone film and a spinoff of Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario.

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado will be available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 2 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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Niles Schwartz

Niles Schwartz has also written for RogerEbert.com.

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