Scandi Crush

Global hit Troll gets a new chapter, with a tag team of testy trolls ready to rumble

- TARA BENNETT

YOU SHOULD NEVER underestimate the power of a monster movie. When creatures go smash, audiences show up in droves, be it Godzilla or an unknown Norwegian giant ready to crush Oslo in director Roar Uthaug's 2022 Netflix feature Troll.

According to the company's stats, Troll remains the streamer's most-viewed non-English film of all time, a fact that still floors the director. “We were not expecting that at all,” Uthaug tells Red Alert. “We were making a small troll movie based on the creatures from our fairy tales and folklore that we grew up with. To be able to take that very Norwegian mythology and create a movie that resonated in such a huge way, we were really blown away by that.”

Uthaug says that during Troll's postproduction, he already had ideas for a sequel. “I was starting to think of how I would love to expand on that mythology and that universe, and how I would love to continue the arcs of these characters. After we saw how huge the movie became, then we started talking about, ‘Okay, what if we made the sequel?’”

Troll 2 is the next chapter, set two years after the first, and reunites a now-disillusioned Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann) with the Troll Alliance team who helped save Oslo in the first film.