{"id":872153,"date":"2026-10-05T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872153\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:46:12","slug":"sicario-3-emily-blunt-benicio-del-toro-josh-brolin-to-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872153\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sicario 3\u2018: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin to Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe waiting game for Sicario 3 may soon be over with news <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/emily-blunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emily Blunt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/benicio-del-toro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Benicio Del Toro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/josh-brolin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Brolin<\/a> are set to return for the latest sequel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA 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\u2019s Sicario. Black Label Media and Thunder Road have also attached Padraic McKinley to direct and Steven Knight to write a script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA third outing for the franchise would follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sicario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sicario<\/a>: Day of the Soldado, the 2018 sequel to Denis Villeneuve\u2019s original Sicario film being directed by Stefano Sollima. Sicario 2 followed a federal border agent (Brolin) who enlists Del Toro\u2019s character in a battle to stop the Mexican drug cartels from trafficking terrorists across the border into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThere\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re very close. It\u2019s one of the projects where we\u2019re ready to put the train on the tracks as soon as the strike ends and our path is cleared. So we\u2019re very excited to get that whole band back together,\u201d Molly Smith, who runs Black Label Media with sister Rachel Smith and twin brothers Trent and Thad Luckinbill, <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/reptile-how-benicio-del-toro-1235602441\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/reptile-how-benicio-del-toro-1235602441\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023.<\/a> \u201cTaylor [Sheridan] always envisioned it as a trilogy, so we have to close it out right. There\u2019s no point in making it unless we can do justice to the true fans of Sicario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sicario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sicario<\/a> films and co-financing La La Land. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDeadline was first to report on casting for Sicario 3.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sicario-_day_of_the_soldado_still_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRichard Foreman, Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The waiting game for Sicario 3 may soon be over with news Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[104367,23422,88,2091,12773,367415],"class_list":["post-872153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-benicio-del-toro","tag-emily-blunt","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-josh-brolin","tag-sicario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872153","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=872153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}