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Great news, horror fans! Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving (read our review here) is still planning on coming back for seconds!
Read on for the details!
It’s been a while since we heard anything about Thanksgiving 2. Back in 2023, director Eli Roth took to Instagram to announce the sequel, to the delight of horror fans everywhere.
From Eli Roth’s Instagram
BREAKING NEWS! John Carver will kill again! @thanksgivingmovie sequel is a GO!!! Thank you everyone who supported ORIGINAL HORROR in theaters!!! Go see it now on the big screen while it’s in cinemas, sequel set for release in 2025! Taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!
But that was two years ago! Why haven’t we heard much more? Roth appeared on Chris Jericho’s podcast recently and was asked about the project.
This is what he had to say on Talk Is Jericho…
“We are doing some polishes on the script. There was a kind of a second act issue that Jeff and I were having. We just kept going going around circles trying to figure out how to get through it. And then actually, another writer team had a really good idea, and we’re like, ‘Oh, let’s let them come in and take a pass because I think we’ve been we’ve kind of had our noses in it for two years.”
“They love the franchise. They’re like, ‘We don’t want to change it. We love it. You guys have a brilliant sequel, but we think that… this is the issue.’ And we’re like, ‘Ah, yeah.’ But that’s cool to collaborate with people with outside views… My theory has always been, ‘best idea wins.’”
“The plan is for the script to get done this year and then for us to prep in the spring. I want to shoot it in the spring.”
Awesome news!
We can’t get enough holiday horror around here, so it’s safe to say we’re stoked! What about you? Are you ready for Thanksgiving 2?
Tell us in the comments!
