By The Taron Egerton-led airport-set Christmas action thriller “Carry-On” has proven to be the little engine that could for Netflix.
As previously reported, the title had the streamer’s biggest debut of last year, garnering 42 million views in just three days. Turns out though, more have been watching since its launch weekend as well.
On Tuesday this week, just under four weeks after the film launched, the title has racked up 149.5 million views – that has led to it scoring the fifth spot on Netflix’s most popular English-language films of all time list.
It currently sits behind only “Red Notice,” “Don’t Look Up,” “The Adam Project” and “Bird Box” in terms of overall original films on the service.
Speaking with Variety, the film’s director Jaume Collet-Serra says despite the film’s success there have been no formal talks about a sequel:
“We don’t have any plans for a sequel. But if audiences wanted a sequel, families wanted a sequel and if we had an idea that would spark and live up to the original maybe we would do something. But right now, there are no plans.”
Egerton stars in the film as a TSA agent at LAX who is blackmailed by a mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) into allowing luggage onto a plane bound for New York.
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