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Jordan Farley

Troll 2 director on the kaiju-sized sequel to Netflix's most-watched non-English language movie: "We wanted the troll to feel very different to the first movie"

Jotun in Troll 2.

You might not know it, but for three years now, Norwegian monster movie Troll has towered over the competition at Netflix and, to this day, remains the streamer's most-watched non-English language movie ever, with 103 million views globally. The Norse saga continues with Troll 2 – aptly named as the monster–sized sequel sees two trolls square off across the rugged Norwegian landscape.

"I hadn't planned [to do] a sequel," director and co-writer Roar Uthaug (2018's Tomb Raider) tells GamesRadar+. "During the editing of the first one, ideas started coming to me on how to continue this saga, and also broaden it and expand on it. So then I got really excited."

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