Josh Brolinis having one hell of a summer this year. The actor bashed his way up the ranks of the MCU villain roster as Thanos in Marvel’s record-breakingAvengers: Infinity Warand dethroned his own box office hit whenDeadpool 2swiped the top spot fromInfinity Warlast weekend. But Brolin isn’t just doing superhero double duty, he’s also re-teaming with Benicio Del Toro for a sequel to the acclaimed crime thrillerSicario.
Sicario: Day of the SoldadoseesStefano Sollima(Gomorrah) taking over as director for the sequel toDenis Villeneuve’s 2015 thriller, with original screenwriterTaylor Sheridan– who also wroteHell or High Waterand helmed last year’sWind River– returning to pen the script.
The film picks up during an escalation of the drug war at the US-Mexico border after the cartels start sending terrorists across to American soil. The film picks up with Del Toro’s revenge-fuelled Alejandro when he’s recruited once again by Brolin’s CIA operative Matt Graver to start a war between dueling cartels by kidnapping a Kingpin’s daughter (Isabela Moner). But when the mission is exposed, things get a little too dirty and and when he’s ordered to terminate the girl, Alejandro ends up at war with everyone.
Watch the newSicario: Day of the Soldadotrailer below. The film also starsCatherine Keener,Manuel Garcia-Rulfo,Jeffrey Donovan, andMatthew Modineand opens in theaters on June 08, 2025.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“In SICARIO, Day of the Soldado, the series begins a new chapter. In the drug war, there are no rules – and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin’s daughter to inflame the conflict – but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for.”
