Karl City’s The Bluff 2 Possibilities Addressed By Director After Prime Video Debut

Warning: Main SPOILERS lie forward for The Bluff!Because the movie begins drawing blood on Prime Video, Frank E. Flowers is weighing in on the probabilities of The Bluff getting a sequel.

Co-written and directed by the Bob Marley: One Love scribe, the movie is led by Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Ercell Bodden, a lady dwelling on one of many Cayman Islands within the nineteenth century along with her teenage son, teenage sister-in-law and fisher captain husband. Her quiet life is abruptly upended when ruthless pirate Captain Connor, performed by The Boys vet Karl City, involves the island each in quest of gold and her, revealing her previous as a former member of his crew.

Forward of the movie’s launch, ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan interviewed Frank E. Flowers to debate The Bluff. When requested in regards to the probabilities of a sequel to his R-rated pirate action-thriller, the co-writer/director confirmed it is “one thing we take into consideration rather a lot” within the wake of wrapping manufacturing on it.

Praising his collaboration with the Russo Brothers’ AGBO manufacturing banner and Amazon MGM, with each having “believed on this film a lot,” Flowers went on to precise that he “can solely hope and pray that now we have alternatives to inform extra tales.” Nevertheless, acknowledging the likelihood that it could be a one-and-done affair, Flowers additionally stated he is “extremely happy” with the movie ought to The Bluff 2 not occur, aiming to have given “individuals a complete meal with this film“:

Frank E. Flowers: [We wanted to give them] one thing recent and attention-grabbing that would depart them wanting extra, whereas additionally pondering, “Man, that was fairly bada–.” So hopefully, they are going to watch it once more. And the film’s layered so that you just really may watch it once more, and get little bits and extra from it, so we’re excited. There’s much more story to inform — there’s all the time much more story to inform — particularly when you could have individuals like Priyanka and Karl, the place there are pages of deep character stuff that was by no means filmed, however we all know it, and it comes throughout within the efficiency.

A lot to Flowers’ level, The Bluff does finish on a reasonably conclusive sufficient notice that if it weren’t to get a sequel, it’s a satisfyingly wrapped story. After struggling quite a few losses on each side, together with Ercell’s husband, Ismael Cruz Córdova’s T.H. Bodden, and Connor’s second-in-command, Temuera Morrison’s Lee, the film culminates in a brutal struggle between Jonas and City’s characters, with the previous narrowly the latter and reuniting along with her surviving household.

That being stated, there are actually methods for The Bluff 2 to select up the story from the place the primary movie leaves off. For starters, with few individuals on Ercell’s island, and her identification of “Bloody Mary” now revealed, she might discover herself on the run along with her sister-in-law and son, significantly from the East Indian Buying and selling Firm. Or, slightly than fleeing, she may turn into the island’s new protector, placing her within the crosshairs of yet one more foe from her previous, be they pirate or the federal government.

One other risk for increasing the world past The Bluff is to as an alternative go a prequel route and additional discover Ercell’s previous as Bloody Mary. The Russos-produced movie solely provided temporary glimpses of her general time as a pirate, a lot in the best way David Harbour’s Violent Night time and Bob Odenkirk’s No person saved their motion heroes’ backstories considerably of a thriller, other than a flashback scene or two. A follow-up may both take an identical path to discover extra of Jonas’ character’s previous, or go together with a prequel to arrange future tales.

Finally, as Flowers denotes, the true deciding issue for The Bluff 2 to occur is how the primary movie performs on Prime Video. Critics have confirmed to be considerably combined on the challenge, solely giving it a 65% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes on the time of writing. Nevertheless, with the Chris Hemsworth-led Extraction garnering related reception at Netflix and spawning one launched sequel, a soon-to-release spinoff collection and each a 3rd movie and spinoff movie in growth, the Russo brothers may reunite with Jonas and Flowers to maintain the story going.

Launch Date

February 25, 2026

Runtime

101 Minutes

Director

Frank E. Flowers

Writers

Frank E. Flowers, Joe Ballarini