Director Christian Gudegast opens up about partnering with Gerard Butler and how things look for future collaborations.

Yet writer and director Christian Gudegast was determined to shoot a sequel. Like Donnie, Gudegast embraces the challenge, knowing he has more stories to tell within the Den of Thieves universe.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera writer-director Christian Gudegast has the patience of a saint. 2018’s Den of Thieves, starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Pablo Schreiber, took 15 years ...

The dogged cop and wily thief butt heads again in Christian Gudegast's follow-up to his 2018 heist thriller. By Frank Scheck Imagine the iconic diner sit-down scene between Al Pacino and Robert De ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. Creating a brand-new franchise in a world of IP adaptations is hard work. Just ask ...

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera is a 2025 American heist film directed and written by Christian Gudegast. The movie, released on January 10, 2025, is a sequel to the 2018 film Den of Thieves. Lionsgate ...

Den of Thieves 3 has fans eagerly anticipating its arrival. The first movie came out on January 19, 2018, and had both intense action and complicated heist plots. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, which ...

Writer/director Christian Gudegast’s Den Of Thieves is not a film that particularly appealed to my personal sensibilities, but it did allow me to go into the sequel with an open mind and ...

Christian Gudegast's sequel ups the stupidity of the cat-and-mouse thriller that preceded it en route to becoming far more entertaining than it had any right to be. A mere seven years later ...