The Substitute 2: School's Out

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The Substitute 2: School's Out
DVD cover
Directed by	Steven Pearl
Written by	Roy Frumkes Rocco Simonelli
Based on	Characters by Roy Frumkes Rocco Simonelli Alan Ormsby
Produced by	Morrie Eisenman Robert Salerno
Starring	Treat Williams B. D. Wong Angel David Michael Michele Larry Gilliard Jr.
Cinematography	Larry Banks
Music by	Joe Delia
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	August 1, 1998 (1998-08-01)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Substitute 2: School's Out is a 1998 straight-to-DVD action-crime-thriller film directed by Steven Pearl and starring Treat Williams as Carl Thomasson (later spelled Karl in the sequels), a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother's killer.

The film has very little connection to The Substitute, other than Joey Six (protagonist Jonathan Shale's only surviving mercenary in the first film, this time portrayed by Angel David instead of Raymond Cruz) aiding Thomasson during the course of the movie. A reference early in the film indicates, through a photograph and short conversation between Thomasson and Joey Six, that Shale and Jane Hetzko (Shale's girlfriend) had married and now teach in foreign nations as part of the Peace Corps. It is also noted that Shale and Thomasson had served in the Army, as well as worked as mercenaries together.