Sequel Bits: ‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2,’ ‘Happy Death Day 3,’ The Future Of ‘Nightmare On Elm Street,’ And More
In this edition Sequel Bits:
Despite the box office success ofSonic the Hedgehog, quietly becoming thebiggest video game movie everdomestically even amid the coronavirus pandemic, Paramount hasn’t yet greenlit a sequel. But directorJeff Fowleris ready to return for a sequel, which the end ofSonic the Hedgehogleft the door open for with a tease of the video game favorite character Tails.
“There’s so many more great characters to bring in and just more stories to tell,” Fowler toldUSA Today. “(But) nothing would bring me more happiness than getting another shot with these characters and to tell more stories. We’d love to do more with the Sonic cinematic universe.”
TheHappy Death Daymovies were unexpected critical hits, but the low box office performance of the genre-bendingHappy Death Day 2Ucasts doubts on whether a third film could complete the trilogy that writer/directorChristopher Landonhas in mind. However, star Jessica Rothe is holding out hope that they could complete the trilogy withHappy Day Day 3tellingComingSoon.net:
“I would love if we had the opportunity to complete the trilogy. I know that Chris has it all mapped out in his genius brain, but I also know that we only want to complete it if we get to do it right.”
But even ifHappy Day Day 3doesn’t happen anytime soon, Rothe suggests that the series could come back in “five or ten or twenty” years, “if we pull a Jamie Lee Curtis fromHalloweenand Tree comes back as a badass 50-year-old.” Tree has already proved that she deserves to be the next-gen scream queen, so maybe there’s a chance.
The future of theNightmare on Elm Streetfranchise is looking to kick into gear, with SpectreVision’s Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah expressing interest in developing a new installment whileDoctor Sleepdirector Mike Flanagan revealing his pitch for a new film. Observing all of this at a distance is original series starRobert Englund, who played the infamous serial killer Freddy Krueger for nearly two decades. Eunglund has heard his share of pitches and script outlines for potential films, and shared withComingSoon.netwhere he thinks the future of theNightmareon Elm Streetfranchise will go under the stewardship of the Wes Craven estate and Craven’s children Jessica and Jonathan.
" I’ve heard over the years of a couple of really great scripts, along with just the idea of rebooting with new special effects and a new cast, and that’s fine, but the other thing is that I’ve heard of a couple of other scripts over the years that really sound interesting," Eunglund said, describing several intriguing pitches to ComingSoon including a courtroom prequel with “Freddy killing the first kids,” a period film about “a college girl who came back to find out the truth of what happened to her sister” from the firstNightmare, and a “failed reboot” of the firstNightmarefilm done in an “animated and graphic novel style.”
But Eunglund trusts the future of the franchise in Jessica and Jonathan Craven’s hands, praising their “business savvy” and saying the possibilities are endless since the franchise has “such a rich, rich mythology.”
A decade afterScott Pilgrim vs. the Worldhit theaters,ComicBook.comaskedMichael Ceraif he’d be interested in returning to the property directed by Edgar Wright. And surprisingly, Cera revealed that he would be willing to return to the hyper-stylized world just to give the cast “some excuse to get together.”
“Bill Pope, who’s the cinematographer, was doing brunches quite regularly with his wife Sharon. It really felt like an extended family. It’s 10 years later, so obviously life, for everybody, is doing their own thing. I would love, if it meant getting everyone to hang out for a while again, I would love that. Hopefully, this being the 10th anniversary, it will give us some excuse to get together. "
However, director Edgar Wright has not yet helmed a sequel to one of his films, even with the critical and cult successes of his movies. While fellow co-star Mary Elizabeth Winstead recently had some suggestions for a sequel, it’s not likely we’ll get aScott Pilgrim vs. the World 2with the same cast — especially one that has gained as much fame asScott Pilgrim’s has.
In an interview withBloody-Disgusting,Evil Deadreboot director Fede Alvarez revealed that he planned a sequel to his 2013 horror film withJane Levy’s Mia Allen, which would bring backBruce Campell’s Ash to the series. But when theAsh vs. Evil DeadTV show happened, those plans fell apart.
“We started writing a sequel [right away] – thinking about what the sequel is going to be. We all agreed it was going to happen. Rodo [Sayagues] and I started thinking about it. We had the full story and then basically, it was strange…the whole intention was to do that, to team [Ash and Mia] up. That was always the goal, but I think Sam had different goals. Sam wanted to haveBruce backfor the TV show that came out a few years after that. It was complex to make the movie at the time and whatever mythology we were going to create with them, and it would have been complicated for the show because Sam had his own ideas of what would happen to Ash, and he wanted to tell that story. So that’s why…it [ended up] not happening.”
WWE starLiv Morgantook to Twitter to request a sequel toReady to Rumble, the 2000 David Arquette comedy vehicle that also featured a ton of WCW wrestlers. And Morgan wants to star in a possible sequel,tweeting, “Can someone makeReady to Rumblepart 2, and can I be in it please ?”
Arquette was quick to respond, offering to reprise his role in the film and act as the dad to Morgan’s character.
“Well you work with the company that should own half the rights – and I think that would be awesome,” Arquettereplied. “I could be your dad.”
