The unique Happy Death Day in 2017 was a kind of “why hasn’t this achieved earlier than?” horror films, whereby school lady Tree (performed by Jessica Rothe) obtained caught in a time loop that at all times ended along with her getting murdered. That first film did rather well, and its sequel Happy Death Day 2U additionally did fairly good! Over the previous few years, it hasn’t been clear if a sequel would ever occur, however excellent news: it’s apparently nonetheless within the playing cards.
Whereas doing promo for her latest movie Boy Kills World, Rothe revealed to ScreenGeek that director Christopher Landon “has the entire thing found out. We simply want to attend for Blumhouse and Common to get their geese in a row.” So far as she’s involved, Tree “deserves her third and last chapter to deliver that unbelievable character and franchise to a detailed or a brand new starting. However my fingers are so crossed.”
Presumably, she’s referring to how busy the 2 studios have been and the place it will possibly match on their schedules. Setting apart COVID and final 12 months’s strikes, they’ve partnered on numerous horror flicks within the final 5 years: some have been reimaginings of the Universal Monsters, others have been original movies or reboots of Common’s horror steady. Most of them have achieved fairly properly on the field workplace, and in some instances, have (or will lead) to franchises all their very own. Individually, Blumhouse merged with James Wan’s Atomic Monster earlier this 12 months, and now has its sights set on video games, whereas Common’s centered on huge flicks like Fall Man, the The right way to Prepare Your Dragon remake, and now the Mario films.
Again in 2020, Landon revealed his deliberate title for the threequel was Happy Death Day to Us, although by that time, it was shelved. At the moment, he teased the flm could be set on a completely totally different day, which might assist preserve the presssure off doing the identical actual factor a 3rd time. With luck, it’ll get made and launched pretty quickly—if Now You See Me can come again with a 3rd film almost a decade later, then so can this.
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