After that cliffhanger at the end of Netflix‘s The Old Guard 2 – starring the likes of Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Henry Golding and Uma Therman – we need to know if there’s going to be a The Old Guard 3.

Many characters are left in serious jeopardy, meaning that we need to know if we’re going to have our questions answered in another instalment.

First of all, director Victoria Mahoney has defended the decision to end the film on a cliffhanger in an interview with ScreenRant, insisting that the move was very much on purpose.

“The people who spearheaded it, we were concerned and interested in a sense of wonderment and hope,” she said. “I wasn’t attached to how we got there. I was attached to [that feeling] of wonderment and hope and strength and fortitude and unity.

“As far as it being a cliffhanger, I don’t know how to approach things as a mechanism.”

When asked about the possibility of a third film by Entertainment Weekly, Mahoney responded “I genuinely don’t know”, adding “I don’t know what’s going on outside this room”.

“I have no idea,” she said. “I hope for it, and I hope that audiences get it, and I hope everyone that goes to play on that third one has a ball and kicks ass and I’ll be rooting for them. I won’t be there, but I will be rooting for them. Sincerely, vigorously.”

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Mahoney won’t be available to direct, she says, as she’ll be working on other projects – meaning that another director may have to step in if a third film gets the green light.

“I’m not in the room. I’m not in that discussion of whether there will be another or not,” she said. “The duration of [The Old Guard 2] took me from other projects I have, so I am legally obliged to some other projects. So, I will be for the next six, seven years, on some other jobs.