Searchlight Photos is reportedly transferring ahead with Prepared or Not 2, the follow-up to 2019’s Samara weaving horror comedy.
It received’t be calling on the companies of administrators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett this time, nonetheless, and as a substitute will look to Escape Room director Adam Robitel. Samara Weaving might nicely return nonetheless.
Prepared or Not 2 Coming Out of Hiding
Prepared or Not was a modest horror hit for Searchlight in 2019. Costing simply $6 million to make, it made a decent $57 million worldwide. So a sequel was all the time a chance, particularly if the charismatic Weaving could possibly be satisfied to return again.
Within the first movie, Weaving’s Grace has simply married right into a rich household, and on her wedding ceremony evening, the in-laws have a really completely different kind of ritual in thoughts to mark the event as she is coerced right into a sadistic recreation of hide-and-seek.
Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are set to tackle producing roles alongside Chad Villella. There’s uncertainty over who’s writing Prepared or Not 2, but it surely’s anticipated to be the return of unique writers Man Busick and R. Christopher Murphy.
So what would Prepared or Not 2 be getting in Adam Robitel? Effectively, he’s bought a horror historical past, debuting with 2014’s The Taking of Deborah Logan, writing and directing for Blumhouse with Paranormal Exercise: The Ghost Dimension and Insidious: The Final Key, respectively. He’s no stranger to creating horror hits on a funds both, having made $220 million with the 2 Escape Room motion pictures on a mixed funds of simply $24 million.
Samara Weaving has a busy schedule proper now with roles in E.L. Katz’s horror Azrael, thriller Borderline, and Netflix sequence Little Sky, however given how a lot horror followers loved her efficiency in Prepared or Not, there’s each likelihood she’d wish to return to the character of Grace.
