Writer/director Neil Marshall was a guest at our Monsters & Movies event in 2022, where we screened his movies THE DESCENT and THE LAIR but for some people his greatest film remains 2002’s DOG SOLDIERS.
We got a DTV DESCENT 2 a couple of years after the original, is there any chance of a DOG SOLDIERS sequel?
Inverse asked Marshall that very question in a brand new interview, and it looks like a no-go but he’s not giving up hope just yet.
“I’ve a feeling it’s probably dead in the water because things have gone very quiet from the other side,” Marshall tells the site, no doubt referring to the rights issues that have long been holding up sequel talks. “I’m not giving up, though; there’s still a possibility.”
He continues, “We’ve been trying to get it off the ground for the past six years. I’ve got a story hammered out, but I’ve not written the script yet because I want to know if we’re actually making it or not first. It’s a good idea, and I know Kevin McKidd (Cooper) is on board, but everything has gone very quiet and we don’t know why. We’ll see. I can’t live my life waiting to see if it does happen. If it happens, it happens. It’s always going to be a double-edged sword, though.”
“The fans want it, and I’d love to give it to them, but if I make a mess of it, they’re not going to thank me,” Marshall elaborates on that thought. “The most important thing is making sure that it lives up to the first one. That’s the hardest part.”
He teases, “The new concept for the story is fresh and acknowledges that 20 years have passed. The story is set in a confined setting but a bigger one than the first film.”
What do you reckon? Do you want DOG SOLDIERS 2?