What is this??
I thought BLEEDER was the sequel?? Not really the sequel but you know what I mean...and besides, Mads Mikkelssen died in Pusher...so, any Danish folks knows what this is?? /The Swede
shareWell, I don't think Tonny(Mads) actually died in Pusher... If I recall correctly, Vic mentioned that Frank had "only" seriously injured him.
Anyways... Here's what appears to be the official site. In Danish, naturally. Dammit. http://www.pusher.nu/ It has photos of the cast and film clips. Frank is there, as are Tonny, Vic, Milo, Radovan, and a bunch of other characters. Are these characters all appearing in Pusher II (IMDb is still pretty vague), I wonder, or are these just all the main characters combined from I and II?
And, uh, there's going to be a "Pusher III," apparently... Here's an article that mentions it from Variety.com: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117898777?categoryid=13&cs=1, and here's the important bit of text from that article:
"The (Danish Film Institute) has issued a letter of commitment to Nicolas Winding Refn's "Pusher II," to be produced by Refn and Henrik Danstrup's new production shingle, Billy's People, which was set up after their former company's bankruptcy. Danish major Nordisk Film will back both "Pusher II" and a planned "Pusher III."And yes, Danes, please enlighten us here. :)
---Lepus Rex
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Indeed it seems that Refn has planned two sequels for his 1996 debut film, but instead of following Frank, the main character from the first film, the story will focus on secondary characters from that film (probably because director Refn had a much-publicized falling-out with star Kim Bodnia following the making of their grim 1999 collaboration "Bleeder").
"Pusher II" will star Mads Mikkelsen as Tony, who didn't officially buy the farm in the original, but did take a severe beating with a baseball-bat...
Croatian heavy Milo (Zlatko Buric) will also return for at least one of the sequels, which will introduce new characters.
"Tea and cake or death?"
I heard it would be some sort of prequel
shareRefn said at the Open Air Movie Festival here in 1996 (and several times later) that Pusher was the first of a trilogy, but everybody always reckoned Bleeder was the second.
But with the fallout with Kim Bodnia around Bleeder, who knows what the next will be like. Maybe he reschedules and makes two new Pusher movies to sort of "cover up".
This is the plot for Pusher 2.
Just out of prison, Tonny discovers that he has a child and a debt to his father, the most vicious gangster in Copenhagen.
Pusher 3 will evolve around the charachter of Zlatko Buric
Pusher 2 IS a prequel to Pusher 1, and yes it is suppoused to be a trilogy
shareIt's NOT a prequel, its a sequel, and it just as good as the first one (if not better IMHO) yes i've seen it :)
It follows Tonny this time (Franks gone, he's not in it).
BTW Pusher III is also comming out soon being shot as we speak.
Pusher 2 is gona come out 25. december (DK)
Pusher 3 sometime around febuary 2005.
I also thought Tonny died in the original, i watched it last night...
I was sure Vic says to Frank "Tonny died last night", maybe the english subtitles are wrong ? Which is *beep* but doesn't suprise me a great deal !
He didn't die - Vic says, "I heard you totally smashed him" Obviously Refn was leaving the door open for a return in another film -a bit like Earl Mcgraw and Seymour Scagnetty in Quentin Tarrantino's movies :-).
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