Happy Birthdead 3: Producer Jason Blum Finally Gives Slasher Sequel News

happy birthday 3the continuation ofhappy stillbirth 2 youApparently it’s not completely abandoned, even if the hope of seeing it one day seems pretty slim.

In 2017, Blumhouse released Happy Birthdead, an unassuming horror comedy that focused on Scream Y an endless day. However, the film directed by Christopher B. Landon was an unexpected success receiving fairly lenient reviews and grossing over $125 million at the worldwide box office for a meager budget of five million dollars. The path to a new franchise about a new masked killer seemed to be traced, but from the second part, the project got worse.

The short career of the new slasher

In 2019, happy stillbirth 2 you grossed just $64 million in revenue from its worldwide run, of which just $28 million at home for a nearly $9 million budget, greatly undermining its commercial potential. This sequel, however, left the door wide open for a third installment that producer Jason Blum obviously doesn’t want to bury despite the franchise’s false start. Last January he had already announced on Twitter that he was preparing something for happy birthday 3but since then, the development of the film had not given any news.

More recently, the producer took advantage of a promotional interview with black phone with ScreenRant to update on the progress ofhappy birthday 3 : «[…] Guess who I had lunch with yesterday? Mr. Christopher B. Landon. And guess what we’re talking about? Happy Death Day 3. We discussed it. I’m not saying we’re going to do it, but we discussed it. It really is in our heads. I’m not saying we’re going to do it, but I’m not saying we’re not going to do it.«

Rough awakening for Blumhouse

Therefore, the development is just beginning, and even Jason Blum prefers to take tweezers and not go too far in the realization of the project. For her part, actress Jessica Rothe, who played the main role in the first two parts, will soon star in the action movie. kid kills world alongside Bill Skarsgård, Michelle Dockery, Yayan Ruhian and Andrew Koji, while we have a ghostthe upcoming film directed by Christopher B. Landon and scheduled for Netflix, is currently in post-production.

black phone It will be released in French cinemas from June 22.