Hurray! A sequel to Eastern Promises is in the works

This is awesome news. MTV interviewed David Cronenberg, the director of Eastern Promises, and he says he's working on putting together a sequel to Eastern Promises, for which Viggo Mortensen earned an Oscar nomination playing Russian gangster Nikolai.

The big twist at the end of 2007’s “Eastern Promises”—that Viggo Mortensen’s character, a Russian gangster named Nikolai, is really working for a British intelligence service—raised as many questions as it answered.

Cronenberg has never had any interest in revisiting his work -- and little of it ever has the loose ends that Eastern Promises did. "It's the first time I've ever been in a situation where I actually want to do a sequel to something. I've never had the desire to do that before. But in this case, I thought we had unfinished business with those characters. I didn't feel that we had finished with Nikolai and we had done a lot of research that was more than we could stuff into that one movie."

I hope Naomi Watts is back, too, but whatever the script is, I'm sure it will be great. You certainly left that movie wanting to know even more about Viggo's character and what made him the man he was. Viggo's Russian prison style tattoos were a long lasting type, and scared Russian immigrants who saw him with them off set!