City Of God sequel | HBO Max | filming in 2023. 🎥

[KingsOfKings]

'City of God' Sequel Series in the Works at HBO Max

Fernando Meirelles also revealed he’s trying to make a series about Brazilian superheroes based on the comic 'Cidadão Incomum' (Uncommon Citizen).

collider.com

Released in 2002, the acclaimed drama exposed the cruel world in which the poor and Black communities are forced to live in. The movie was praised for commenting on the fact that kids who are born into the comunidades (slums) receive little to no attention from the government, and have to endure extreme violence in all forms in order to survive. However, it’s been 20 years since the movie was released, and Brazil has changed a lot since then – and the City of God series will set out to reflect that.

That the problems highlighted by City of God are not over. Racism is still a very real and structural issue in Brazil, and people who are born into the comunidades are still victims of constant prejudice. The difference now is that more people acknowledge the problem, and make it a point of destigmatizing those communities. As Meirelles himself puts it, City of God “talked about the shortcomings of the comunidades. This time, it's going to be about the power of those comunidades." Collider can tell you that the City of God series is being developed by HBO Max right now. The scripts are being finished, and the streamer plans to film it in 2023

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

shiiiit can somebody dubbed the og

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I’ll taper my expectations.

Two decades has passed since the OG and it’s gonna be hard to recreate the same magic with all that time in the rear view.

 

[ChatGPT-5]

 

[Lootpack]

shiiiit can somebody dubbed the og

Negged.

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Interesting - they already did a spin off film/series called City Of Men in the mid 00's with the actor who played the kid version of Lil Dice . It was pretty good.

If they do actually do this - the suits better pay the actors properly this time

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

interesting.. City of God was raw

 

[FlyRy]

Have the poster in my room. Going to Brazil in a few months. It was written brehs

 

[Human Torch]

Feels like one of those movies that was a perfect storm or era, no expectations, grittiness, etc.

Hope the sequel will be fire but won’t get my hopes up.

 

[-DMP-]

I need to re watch city of god. I remember it being long and intense.

 

[010101]

feels like they about to shyte on a classic*

 

[8====D]

City of God is a fukking classic!

They better make this shyt raw and uncut! No whitewashing!

 

[85 East]

They did City of Men and the movie for City of Men. Hopefully this is as good. City of God is a hard act to follow

 

[Mike809]

The good thing about originals , is that they don't have any hype or expectations to live up to.

Sequels are always compared to originals , and rarely do they live up to the expectations.

 

[DaRealness]

I remember watching it for the first time after reading about it in the newspaper (it was 20 years ago after all) not knowing much about Brazil and not expecting much at all only to end up being blown away by what I was watching. I went back to see it like maybe four times more after that.

Some of the actors have sadly struggled since then and one even went missing, but the two dudes who played Lil Dice/Ze have gone on to do real well for themselves and still doing their thing, especially the younger one. Of course the chick who played Angelica went on to do other stuff and played Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South. I thought the kid Rocket who starred in City of God would have become a bigger name.

The original will always stand out as a classic masterpiece. The fact the sequel series is being made by the same guy is encouraging.