Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin Board ‘Sicario 3’

The waiting game for Sicario 3 may soon be over with news Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin are set to return for the latest sequel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

A Sicario 3 mission would reunite co-leads del Toro as Alejandro Gillick and Brolin as Matt Graver with Blunt as domestic agent Kate Macer from 2015’s Sicario. Black Label Media and Thunder Road have also attached Padraic McKinley to direct and Steven Knight to write a script.

A third outing for the franchise would follow Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the 2018 sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s original Sicario film being directed by Stefano Sollima. Sicario 2 followed a federal border agent (Brolin) who enlists Del Toro’s character in a battle to stop the Mexican drug cartels from trafficking terrorists across the border into the U.S.

There’s no word on a storyline for the third Sicario movie, which got delayed by the 2023 Hollywood writers strike and is expected to be a trilogy capper for the world and the characters that screenwriter Taylor Sheridan originated in the first two films in the franchise.

“We’re very close. It’s one of the projects where we’re ready to put the train on the tracks as soon as the strike ends and our path is cleared. So we’re very excited to get that whole band back together,” Molly Smith, who runs Black Label Media with sister Rachel Smith and twin brothers Trent and Thad Luckinbill, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “Taylor [Sheridan] always envisioned it as a trilogy, so we have to close it out right. There’s no point in making it unless we can do justice to the true fans of Sicario.”

The producer credits will be shared by Molly Smith and the Luckinbill twins for Black Label Media, Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee for Thunder Road and Ed McDonnell. Black Label Media is best known for producing the Sicario films and co-financing La La Land.