The Old Guard 2 will emerge from post-production hell in July 2025, Netflix reveals

by Ryan Lambie |
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Netflix’s production slate finally gives long-delayed sequel The Old Guard 2 a release date: expect it on your tellybox on the 2nd July.

Just as we were thinking about buying a funeral wreath for The Old Guard 2, an action sequel stuck in post-production hell since 2022, Netflix comes along and announces a release date. You’ve probably read it by now, but we’ll type it again: the fantastical, vaguely Highlander-esque action sequel will stream from the 2nd July 2025.

The original Old Guard came out in the pandemic-riven months of 2020, and with 70 million views, it was deemed successful enough to warrant a sequel. The Hollywood strikes and a regime change at Netflix then delayed work on that follow-up, and earlier this month came a report that The Old Guard 2 might have to be delayed for a second round of reshoots scheduled for early this summer.

The Old Guard 2 is one of numerous films and shows that are due to emerge on Netflix this year. There’s the much-anticipated Squid Game season 3, which we’ve already written a handy post about if you’re interested. Equally eye-catching – for us at least – is another long-delayed movie: Havoc, from writer-director Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy.

Like The Old Guard 2, Havoc finished its original shoot an aeon ago – in 2021, to be precise. Since then, it’s been delayed more than once, and the last we heard, it was undergoing reshoots – that was in July 2024. Despite fears of trouble behind the scenes, Netflix has now pencilled it in for a spring 2025 debut.

Elsewhere on Netflix’s slate for the year you’ll find Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, scheduled for the autumn; Rip, a Ben Affleck and Matt Damon thriller; an untitled movie from director Kathryn Bigelow; Happy Gilmore 2; The Thursday Murder Club, Happy Gilmore 2; and Wednesday season 2. That’s quite a line-up, and that’s before we get to sci-fi action thriller The Electric State – you can expect to see that, and its gloriously dodgy wigs, on Netflix from the 14th March.

You can find the full slate on Netflix’s website.

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