The sequel to the 2021 action-thriller Nobody, which starred Bob Odenkirk, has found its director and has been slated for a summer 2025 release: Timo Tjahjanto is set to helm the follow-up film for Universal Pictures and 87North.

The script comes from Odenkirk, Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin and Umair Aleem. Plot details are still under wraps, however, with Ilya Naishuller’s initial film centring on family man Hutch Mansell, who picks his secret career as an assassin back up after he and his loved ones are targeted by a Russian crime boss. Variety suggests that Connie Nielsen will return as Becca Mansell, the wife to Odenkirk’s lead. No other casting has been announced.

Tjahjanto is known for his work on the V/H/S horror film franchise, specifically in V/H/S/2 and V/H/S/94, and has also helmed the Netflix-released Indonesian features The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, and The Big 4. He is also one half of the filmmaking duo the Mo Brothers, alongside Kimo Stamboel. Together, they have written and directed the films Macabre, Killers and Headshot.

At the time of the first film’s release, STARBURST’s Paul Mount wrote: “Utterly preposterous verging on the ludicrous, Nobody explodes off the screen like a big box of firecrackers and it will demand you set aside your critical faculties and just revel in the madness and the utter chaos unfolding before your very eyes. File this one alongside last year’s Unhinged as a guilty pleasure you really shouldn’t feel guilty about for one second.”

Nobody 2 is set to release in cinemas from August 15th, 2025.