“ Sisu: Road to Revenge ” is the second chapter in the saga of Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), the Finnish badass who brutally killed a TON of Nazis who tried to steal his gold in 2022’s “Sisu.” In the sequel, Aatami, a man of few words, dismantles his family home after the Red Army moves the borders of his country. His plan? Drive the materials to a new homeland and rebuild. But given all the blood on his hands from the first movie, a Soviet Red Army leader (Richard Brake) hires the violent officer who killed Aatami’s family (Stephen Lang) to eliminate the patriarch next. Variety spoke with Jalmari Helander, the films’ Finnish writer and director, after its Fantastic Fest world premiere to break down why he wrote a sequel, the hazards of having blood-filled setpieces and potential seq

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