Ready or Not 2 in the works with Samara Weaving returning
Are you ready for this one... or not?
Exciting news for spooky season: Ready or Not, one of the most enjoyable horror films of the 2010s, is reportedly returning for a sequel.
Creators Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who go by the collective alias Radio Silence, are set to helm the follow-up, with star Samara Weaving reprising her popular role as Grace.
The original movie saw bride-to-be Grace enter the stately home of her wealthy fiancé Alex (Mark O'Brien) ahead of their wedding day, only to find that her soon-to-be family-in-law run a bloodthirsty cult, proceeding to hunt her around their mansion before meeting their own rather gruesome ends.
Receiving a ‘Fresh’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, the horror was largely well-received, and made $57.6 million worldwide from a budget of just $6 million.
This return on investment was seemingly enough to convince Searchlight Pictures to greenlight a sequel, which, according to Deadline, will reveal its release window "at a later date".
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Star Weaving had previously suggested that she and Radio Silence were planning a follow-up to the 2019 cult hit, telling ComicBook: "I’m all in. I think we’re all in, I don’t know. I think we’re all in. I don’t know if we’ve had our blood handshake, but pretty much.
"We’ve done the spit handshake, but we haven’t cut each other’s hands and rubbed our blood together."
Lovely jubbly.
This film will follow Radio Silence’s successful oversight of the Scream ‘requel’ in 2022 and its own sequel, Scream VI, which also featured Weaving in a short-lived (pardon the pun) role.
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