Bright is getting a sequel

Today Netflix confirmed that they will make a sequel to Bright. David Ayer, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are expected to return.

Bright is the highest viewed Netflix film ever on the service in its first week of release and one of the biggest originals (including sequels/additional seasons) Netflix has ever launched.

Despite it getting some bad reviews, I quite enjoyed the film. I did feel that some reviews had not actually watched the film or they had already written them before the film was out. It was kind of like Alien Nation meets End of Watch in a modern day world of Dungeons and Dragons. The action was good. Will Smith and Joel Edgerton were great and I loved how it dropped information about the world and its history through conversation, graffiti and other background bits and pieces. It did seem more a set up for a TV show, but I am glad there will be more adventures set in that world.

Set in an alternate present-day, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds (Ward, a human played by Will Smith, and Jakoby, an orc played by Joel Edgerton) who embark on a routine patrol night that will ultimately alter the future as their world knows it. Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.