{"id":180518,"date":"2025-09-25T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180518\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:36:13","slug":"road-to-revenge-director-on-killing-nazis-potential-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180518\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Revenge’ Director on Killing Nazis & Potential Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSisu: Road to Revenge<\/a>\u201d is the second chapter in the saga of Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), the Finnish badass who brutally killed a TON of Nazis who tried to steal his gold in 2022\u2019s \u201cSisu.\u201d In the sequel,\u00a0Aatami, a man of few words, dismantles his family home after the Red Army moves the borders of his country. His plan? Drive the materials to a new homeland and rebuild. But given all the blood on his hands from the first movie, a Soviet Red Army leader (Richard Brake) hires the violent officer who killed Aatami\u2019s family (Stephen Lang) to eliminate the patriarch next. Variety spoke with Jalmari Helander, the films\u2019 Finnish writer and director, after its Fantastic Fest<\/a> world premiere to break down why he wrote a sequel, the hazards of having blood-filled setpieces and potential sequel plans.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhat inspired you to make a sequel?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSony wanted me to do a sequel, and I had an idea for it, but then I decided that it wasn\u2019t good enough. Then my producer, Petri [Jokiranta], made me think harder because he said, \u201cBut we kind of promised that he can do it.\u201d So one day I got the idea of him going to get his home back, which I thought was a really good idea. It was good enough that I will have the balls to actually try to do a better film than \u201cSisu,\u201d because, of course, I needed to do that, or think at least that I will do that.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow do you come up with the ideas of these set pieces, with planes and trucks and tanks all used as vehicles of destruction?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m doing something other than trying to have ideas like that. I always remember the best ones. I remember where I was when I had the weird idea of Aatami sucking oxygen out of Nazi lungs. It\u2019s funny when it happens, when it suddenly comes.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow did Stephen Lang end up as the villain?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was Sony\u2019s idea to ask him, because I was thinking someone younger. But when I heard that idea, it felt so obvious that \u201cYes, it has to be Stephen Lang.\u201d And there\u2019s some kind of similarity in Steven and in Jorma, how they are, and it worked beautifully.<\/p>\n

\t\tRichard Brake also joins the film. What was it collaborating with him?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was really cool. He was really into it, and he really liked the first \u201cSisu.\u201d He was really happy to come for the second one. They were really nice guys, and I don\u2019t even have to lie when I say that. Everyone is always saying, \u201cYeah, we had the best crew and the actors were wonderful.\u201d Usually they are not, probably, but this time they were really nice.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhen it comes to taking a ton of damage without dying, how do you kind of find that line between man and superhero for Aatami?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m not sure. I think I\u2019m crossing the line constantly, but that\u2019s what I try to do. I\u2019m trying to find where the limit is. And sometimes I cross it and take a step back, but it doesn\u2019t happen very often nowadays. It\u2019s like hiding the knife in your leg. [Editor\u2019s note: In one scene, Aatami opens up a wound on his leg, in which he had hidden a long knife under his skin.] My original idea is was that he was hiding more things. He actually had a pistol in his stomach.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhat are some of the movies that inspired you for this film?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIndiana Jones for sure, and some old Bond films also. It has a similar kind of fun action in it. Those probably are the biggest influences.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhy do you think that it\u2019s so satisfying for people to watch Nazis and members of the Soviet Red Army get blown up?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI think that people love to see when bad guys get their ass kicked in a proper way. We live in a world where it seems like that\u2019s not happening, and movies are a good place to do things that make people happy.<\/p>\n

\t\tThere\u2019s so much blood in this movie. Was it hard to keep continuity when doing second takes?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIf we\u2019re doing something like the shootout in the train, it\u2019s a one-take wonder because there are so many squibs going on and it\u2019s really expensive and time-consuming. Having all that set up takes more than one day. I\u2019m just hoping for the best when it goes off, because you don\u2019t reset it like that.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow are you able to be so economical with your storytelling and still get across Aatami\u2019s pain and anguish?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI know that I need to do my work really well with the emotional stuff in the beginning to set the story up so that you really feel for Aatami and you are interested in his actions, and you want him to get that house, and you hope for best things for him. If I can manage to do that in the beginning, then I have permission to blow everything up and have some fun with it.<\/p>\n

\t\tThis movie ends with a rare moment of relief for Aatami. Was that always the goal?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, it was one of the things I invented very early on, how I want this to end. There\u2019s something really cool with the last scene of the film.<\/p>\n

\t\tDo you have ideas for what a third adventure could look like, potentially?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI have ideas, but I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s going to happen ever, but you never know.<\/p>\n

\t\tHave you thought about Aatami\u2019s life as a younger man? Maybe a prequel?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve thought it through, how was his life before, especially when I was making the second one: His family and the war and what the war did to him and all that.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the \u201cSisu: Road to Revenge\u201d trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSisu: Road to Revenge\u201d is the second chapter in the saga of Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), the Finnish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,57836,206,106911],"class_list":["post-180518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-fantastic-fest","tag-movies","tag-sisu-road-to-revenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}