Charlize Theron Shares Update on "The Old Guard 2"

Charlize Theron has addressed The Old Guard 2's long release date delay, and when we might finally see the sequel land on Netflix.

The Oscar winner explains that the sequel, which wrapped shooting about two years ago, has faced a lengthy delay due in part to a change in Netflix leadership.

“Netflix went through quite a changeover,” Theron said at her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project Block Party. “We got kind of stuck in that and our post-production shut down, I think, five weeks into it.”

The actors' and writers' strikes were also attributed to have kept the film from being on schedule. Even so, Theron never worried that the movie could be shelved.

“They were going through a lot of changes, and I totally understand it,” she said. “We finally picked it back up and I’m really excited about it.”

The first “Old Guard” was released in 2020, with the streamer announcing that it reached 72 million households in its first four weeks. 

An adaptation of screenwriter Greg Rucka’s comic book of the same name and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, the movie stars Theron as Andy, the leader of a small army of superhero-esque immortals (Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari and Luca Marinelli), whose centuries-old secret existence is threatened by a villainous pharmaceutical titan who wants to replicate their DNA.

The second installment was directed by Victoria Mahoney with Uma Thurman and Henry Golding joining returning cast members Theron, Layne, Schoenaerts, Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Veronica Ngo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

“It’s really good,” Theron added. “It’s a really important film to us. I only wanted to do it if we could make it amazing. I really love this movie.”

In May 2023, “Old Guard” producer Marc Evans teased the adaptation could become a trilogy. “There’s an ending to No. 2 that kind of demands a No. 3, which makes me very happy,” he told Variety.