Released just two weeks ago, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving has already established itself as another big win for the horror genre . In addition to the film earning the best critical response of Roth’s career behind the camera (CinemaBlend’s Mike Reyes delivering a four-star review), its low budget has allowed it to quickly become a box office success. With all this good stuff happening, the following news shouldn’t be much of a surprise: Thanksgiving 2 is now in the works.
Eli Roth announced the sequel himself on his personal Instagram account. He posted a video saying that Thanksgiving 2 is “a go” and that he and co-writer Jeff Rendell are getting set to start working on the movie’s screenplay. You can watch the director express his excitement over the development in the video below:
Unlike some horror franchises of the past that have produced sequels just a single year after hitting box office gold (Scream, Saw, and Paranormal Activity to name a few), Thanksgiving 2 will not be arriving in time for Turkey Day in 2024. Instead, Eli Roth says that he and his co-writer are going to take their time developing a follow-up story. He says that the film will be arriving on the big screen worldwide in 2025, but he doesn’t provide a date more specific than that.
More to come…
