No Eastern Promises sequel, says Vincent Cassel

• There will be no sequel to 2007’s Eastern Promises, says Vincent Cassel.
• The movie was released on Sept 14, 2007
• It collected $56.5 million at the box office worldwide.

Director David Cronenberg has been attempting to put together the components for a sequel to his 2007 gangster picture Eastern Promises for years. A second picture, according to one of the movie’s stars, is most likely never going to be released.

According to Vincent Cassel, who acted in the movie with Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen, “[Cronenberg] had a wonderful script” for the Eastern Promises sequel. “We were ready to do it and I don’t know why it collapsed,” Cassel said. “Now I don’t think it will happen anymore.”

In the movie Eastern Promises, Watts played Anna, a London-based midwife who gives birth to a prostitute’s baby at the age of 14. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that the girl had been forced into prostitution by the Russian mafia. As a result, Anna meets vicious criminal leader Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl), his driver Nikolai (Mortensen), Semyon’s son Kirill, who is a drunken fool, and other members of the crime family (Cassel). According to rumors, the sequel would have continued where the original movie left off, with Kirill and Nikolai believing they had inherited Semyon’s criminal empire despite Nikolai’s covert double agent activities.

The movie was released on Sept 14, 2007. It collected $56.5 million at the box office worldwide.

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