The Old Guard end credit scene sequel tease, explained by the writer

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The Old Guard, Netflix’s new action drama about Charlize Theron leading a squad of immortal mercenaries, isn’t exactly a superheromovie It is a comic book movie, and so we can state that it’s following a time honored tradition when it teases a sequel in a scene that pops up after the true ending of the movie.

“In case of sequel, break glass,” writer Greg Rucka informed me when I inquired about the fast coda at the start of The Old Guard’s credits. “It’s very straightforward. You want another one? Here’s a way to get into it.”

However, Rucka warned, there was another reason for the fast aside. Let’s check out that reason, and what may be next for Theron’s Andromache the Scythian and her band of warriors.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for The Old Guard on Netflix, the graphic novel The Old Guard, and its sequel, The Old Guard: Force Multiplied.]

Marwan Kenzari as Joe, Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker, Charlize Theron as Andy, Luca Marinelli as Nicky, Kiki Layne as Nile in The Old Guard.

Picture: Aimee Spinks/Netflix.

The final scene of The Old Guard exposes that Quynh (Van Veronica Ngo), Andromache’s old immortal flame, is still alive and free of her terrible, undersea jail time. During the 17 th century, Andy and Quynh were caught and attempted as witches in England. Andy was ultimately able to escape, however not before Quynh was locked inside an iron maiden and thrown into the sea– sentenced to continuous drowning.

Andy and her allies were never ever able to find where Quynh had actually been left, and they had actually presumed, or hoped, that she had ultimately died her finaldeath in the last scene of The Old Guard movie, Booker, banished from the group, stumbles home intoxicated to his apartment or condo, just to find Quynh inside, consuming a glass of water as if she had not had adequate of the things 3 hundred years ago.

“Booker,” she says to the male who just found his immortality in the 1800 s, “It’s nice to finally meet you,” though it appears quite clear she has no kindly intentions towards him.

Rucka, co-creator of The Old Guard comic and film writer of the movie, says that his intentions weren’t just about meaning a sequel, however hinting that there are still more things that our immortal heroes do not know about their ownhistory

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“We wanted to say ‘Look, the mythology is bigger than you think it is. There is more going on,” he informed Polygon. “That was something that I had no interest in checking out in the comic, however I believe when you’re making a movie you’re a little more bound to at least assure responses to concerns. […] In the first [The Old Guard] story, I didn’t want to lose time or real estate, due to the fact that comics pages– that’s your premium, that’s what you’re investing to tell the story.”

However Rucka and artist Leandro Fernández have actually explored what occurs after the end of The Old Guard on Netflix, in their comics sequel to The Old Guard, The Old Guard: Force Multiplied. If you ‘d like to know more about what Quynh does next– and how she’s a bit various than in the comic– read on!

Booker points a gun at Noriko in The Old Guard: Force Multiplied #1, Image Comics (2020). “You are Sebastien Le Livre. Known as Booker,” she says, “Where are the others?”

Image: Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernández/ Image Comics.

What’s the story of Quynh in the Old Guard comics?

The movie The Old Guard is mainly the like the comics, however Quynh’s story has some considerable distinctions. For one thing, her name is Noriko, and she’s Japanese, instead of Vietnamese– those information were changed on request from her star, Veronica Ngo.

“When Veronica was cast, she said I’m not Japanese, I’m Vietnamese,” Rucka informed Polygon. “[Director Gina Prince-Bythewood] reached out to me and stated ‘Can we accommodate that?’ and I was like, ‘Absolutely.’ […] Noriko ends up being Quynh, Quynh is now Vietnamese. It actually was as easy as wishing to honor that, and be considerate of that. There was no other smart or dubious, Oh, possibly there will be a Noriko in the next one.”

The other big distinction is in herdeath In the comic, Quynh/Noriko is cleaned overboard during a storm instead of intentionally drowned. According to Rucka, that was partly a logistical change to savemoney

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“This isn’t the first feature film I’ve had something to do with,” he informed Polygon, “but it’s certainly the first time that I’ve written a screenplay and they’ve actually made it. And, yes, it was pointed out to me, at one point, that should we want to do the sea sequence properly, we were talking in the neighborhood of millions of dollars just for that alone. And Netflix could go and make one or two really good movies with that money, and this would be a minute and a half on screen, so perhaps we could come up with something else?”

However Quynh’s new “death,” strengthened by Prince-Bythewood’s idea of the iron maiden images, served a crucial story and tonal role.

“[It’s a sequence that] highlighted just how dreadful people can be,” Rucka stated. “In fact, it is one of the most horrible sadistic things I can imagine doing to anybody.”

“That is what we are, my heart,” Noriko tells Andromache, “Not made to help them, but to hurt them. Our purpose is to make them suffer.” In The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, Image Comics (2020).

Image: Greg Rucka, Leandro Fernández/ Image Comics.

What occurs in the Old Guard sequel comic?

The Old Guard on Netflix does not give us any tip of why Quynh has actually revealed up in Booker’s apartment or condo. in The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, we get to know why. Quynh has actually been deeply twisted by her undersea ordeal, and now bears an extreme hatred forhumanity

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“I think what Veronica does with the one line she has sends chills down the spine,” Rucka informed Polygon. “And the fact that she’s pouring herself a glass of water. You kind of go, OK, the lights are on, but nobody’s in that house anymore.”

The fascinating side effect of the exact same writer writing the original comic, the screenplay, and the comic’s sequel, is that the dialogue in between comic and movie has actually gone bothways Rucka selected up concepts that were developed during the screenwriting procedure, and put them back into the comics sequel, which– if The Old Guard does get a sequel– will likely get put right back into themovie

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For instance, there are discoveries at the end of the movie that do not take place in the comic– the immortals do not find out that every life they save ultimately causes substantial favorable dividends for all of humanity till Force Multiplied. There’s also things in the comic’s sequel that do not make it into the movie, like Quynh/Noriko’s inspirations.

Quynh/Noriko think that she and Andy and all the others been made immortal to make humanity suffer, not to wait. And she desires Andy to join her again, both as her enthusiast, and in her quest to make humanity suffer.

As for what occurs when Andy and Quynh/Noriko really go head to head? We can’t state for particular, due to the fact that, thanks to coronavirus hold-ups, the final issue of The Old Guard: Force Multiplied has yet to bereleased If you actually want to find out what occurs next, pick up the 4 current issues of Force Multiplied, and get # 5 when it strikes racks on July 15.

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Neela
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