Jaume Collet-Serra, director of Netflix’s popular thriller Carry-On, has addressed the possibility of a sequel. The film, starring Taron Egerton, has become one of the platform’s most-watched movies, with 149.4 million views in its first four weeks.
It currently ranks fifth on Netflix’s list of most-watched English-language movies.
The movie follows an airport security agent who is blackmailed into allowing a deadly package onto a plane on Christmas Eve. After receiving widespread acclaim, many viewers called for a sequel.
However, according to Collet-Serra, there are currently no plans for a follow-up film. In an interview with Variety, he stated, “We don’t have any plans for a sequel.”
Nevertheless, Collet-Serra is open to revisiting the story if there’s sufficient demand and a compelling idea, reports the Mirror.
“But if audiences wanted a sequel, families wanted a sequel and if we had an idea that would spark and live up to the original maybe we would do something. But right now, there are no plans,” he explained.
Collet-Serra, known for directing films like Orphan and The Shallows, has received a significant amount of positive feedback from audiences, beyond the movie’s remarkable success.
“I started getting a lot of calls and texts from friends and people who didn’t know I directed it. They didn’t know until they saw the credits and they were sending me texts that they loved it. I think at that moment I knew the movie was finding an audience and connecting to it,” he shared.
Carry-On has garnered a certified fresh 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics’ consensus praising the film: “Taron Egerton and an against-type Jason Bateman make for great adversaries in Carry-On, a throwback thriller that clears all checkpoints of plot logic with its confident execution.”
The cast is rounded out by Jason Bateman as the menacing traveller; Sofia Carson playing Egerton’s on-screen girlfriend, and Danielle Deadwyler portraying a keen-eyed detective on the trail of the impending terrorist threat.
Carry-On is available to stream now on Netflix.