There has barely been time to savor ‘The Pilot’, the film in which Gerard Butler crashes and shoots everyone next to Mike Colter, and they’ve already announced a sequel that seems to be even more self-aware. If that one in English was titled ‘Plane’ (‘Airplane’) this will be called… ‘Ship’ (‘Boat’). The Transport Cinematographic Universe begins.
They are sitting on this boat
If you have seen ‘The Pilot’ you already know the end of Colter’s character, and why it might make sense for him to come back after killing all the pirates that got in the way. Production will begin this year and, yes, it is not clear that Gerard Butler will return. It makes sense: his character really has no reason to do it, which has never been an impediment for the sequels to give way to nonsense.
And ‘The pilot’ is nonsense, yes, but hilarious. So much so that I hope this starts a real saga and doesn’t sink like the other quintessential marine sequel, ‘Speed 2’. You may think that it hasn’t made enough noise to justify a sequel, but let’s not kid ourselves: it has raised twice what it cost, that is, 43 million dollars around the world. Not bad for an independent film.
We probably won’t see ‘Ship’ until at least late 2024 or early 2025but if it has the same bad mood, the nineties action and the withering dialogues, we wait as long as it takes to be picked up in the violence cruise we didn’t know what we wanted.