Smile 2, the sequel to final 12 months’s shock horror hit, has been slated for a 2024 launch by Paramount Footage.
Smile was a shock hit for Paramount final 12 months, grossing $217 million worldwide; Not unhealthy for a movie which was initially supposed for a streaming launch. The studio is clearly prepared for extra, as they’ve introduced that they’ve slated Smile 2 for an October 18, 2024 launch.
Given the continuing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, there’s solely to this point improvement on Smile 2 can proceed, however Paramount needed to nail down that launch date nonetheless. Parker Finn will as soon as once more return to direct, and though he purposefully left the door open for a sequel, he stated final 12 months that he wouldn’t need to repeat himself.
“I do assume that there’s nonetheless plenty of fascinating stuff to discover on this planet of Smile,” Finn stated. “There definitely are stones that I left unturned by design. After which there are different issues that I, at one level or one other, needed to place within the film, however they didn’t find yourself within the film for no matter purpose. So these issues are nonetheless thrilling to me, but when there’s extra to be performed with Smile, I might by no means need to simply repeat myself or retread the identical floor. I’d need to be sure that there’s a brand new, thrilling, recent means into it that the viewers isn’t anticipating. I additionally need to discover some new methods to scare them and unnerve them. However so far as the way it might connect with the primary one, if we have been to do it, I’d need that to be stunning as properly.“
Primarily based on Finn’s personal brief movie, Laura Hasn’t Slept, Smile stars Sosie Bacon (As We See It) as Dr. Rose Cotter, a therapist who witnesses a weird, traumatic incident involving a affected person and begins experiencing horrifying occurrences that she will’t clarify. As an amazing terror begins taking on her life, Rose should confront her troubling previous with a purpose to survive and escape her horrifying new actuality. Along with Sosie Bacon, Smile additionally stars Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar), Kyle Gallner (Scream), Jessie T. Usher (The Boys), Rob Morgan (Mudbound), Judy Reyes (Scrubs), and Gillian Zinser (90210).