‘Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera’ Rounds Out Cast With 11 Additions
01.08.2023 - 16:29
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has rounded out its cast, bringing on 11 international talents to star opposite the returning Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. The list includes Salvatore Esposito (Gomorrah), Orli Shuka (Gangs of London), Evin Ahmad (Who Is Erin Carter?), Cristian Solimeno (The Glass Man), Nazmiye Oral (Propaganda), Yasen Zates Atour (The Witcher), Giuseppe Schillaci (Romulus), Dino Kelly (Peaky Blinders), Rico Verhoeven (Black Lotus), Velibor Topic (Outside the Wire) and Antonio Bustorff (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One).
Wrapping principal photography on July 5th — a little more than a week prior to the launch of the SAG-AFTRA strike — Pantera marks the sequel to Den of Thieves, the action thriller from writer-director Christian Gudegast which grossed nearly $45M stateside and more than $80M WW via STX in 2018. The original film watches as a group from the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, led by Detective Nick “Big Nick” O’Brien (Butler), looks to thwart a gang of thieves, consisting of ex-Marines (including Jackson’s Donnie Wilson), who are prepping to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles.
In the new film, also written and directed by Gudegast, Big Nick is back on the hunt on the mean streets of Europe, closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the dangerous world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s biggest diamond exchange.
Pic is produced by Tucker Tooley of Tucker Tooley Entertainment, Butler and Alan Siegel of G-BASE, and Mark Canton. Greg Renker and Philip Waley serve as executive producers. Tucker Tooley Entertainment and Entertainment One financed the film, and Briarcliff Entertainment will handle the U.S.