nothing happened. "Solace" sat around on a shelf until 2015, where it made its world premiere in Turkey.
#Is there a sequel to the movie spy serial
Perhaps realizing that this was a fool's errand, the folks involved with "Ei8ht" went ahead and renamed it "Solace," giving up on the "Seven" sequel idea. The film entered production in 2013 under director Afonso Poyart, with Anthony Hopkins as the psychic and Colin Farrell as the serial killer. That psychic power sure would've been handy during the events of "Seven," Somerset. Why didn't you break out your gift then? In any case, New Line thought they had what they needed, and they decided to change the title from "Solace" to "Ei8ht." There's nothing supernatural or otherworldly like psychic phenomenon in "Seven," but that didn't bother New Line. They figured they could change the script so that the psychic character was none other than Morgan Freeman's Detective Somerset, who was suddenly psychic for some reason. The "Solace" script involved a psychic who was brought in to help catch a serial killer. The script New Line seized on was called "Solace," written by Ted Griffin and Sean Bailey. Almost all of the "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon" movies originated as original scripts that were rewritten to become sequels. As odd as this may sound, this custom is actually fairly standard in Hollywood, or at least it used to be. They could have commissioned a sequel script, but instead, the studio decided to just find a pre-existing script and rework it. Meanwhile, "Seven" distributor New Line Cinema decided they wanted a sequel. It's not a pleasant movie, and yet it ended up being a big hit and ushered in a whole new era of serial killer thrillers, most of which were kind of crappy.