Happy Death Day franchise star Jessica Rothe recently offered an update on the long-awaited third movie that fans would love to see get made.
Happy Death Day 3 is in the works, it’s all figured out, but the creative team is just waiting for the studios to move on it.
While talking to ScreenGeek, Rothe said: “Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out. We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.”
She added: “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Rothe previously said she is confident that we’ll see the third get made into a movie one day, and producer Jason Blum is saying that he’s “working overtime” to get the next sequel into development.
Landon previously shared his concept for the third film saying: “The idea for the third film is not set in the same day, if that’s a big spoiler. So it can happen later.”
He added: “We’re not up against a really difficult clock right now. The other movies were hard, because they were set in the exact same day, so everybody had to look the same, be the same. The pressure is off there.”
He went onto to say: “It’s definitely off to the side at the moment. I wish it wasn’t, and I know that [Jason Blum, producer] is passionate about it, I know I’m very passionate about it, and I know that Jessica Rothe is really eager to do it as well.”
He continued: “I wrote the idea for the third movie some time ago. I think we’re all excited by it, because it’s different than the other two films, and so we’re really just crossing our fingers and hoping that our fanbase continues to grow – which is something that I’ve really enjoyed watching over the years, seeing more and more people discover both films. So who knows. There might be a time when it makes sense, and hopefully it’s sooner rather than later.”
The story for the first two films featured Rothe in the role of Theresa “Tree” Gelbman, a college student who finds herself caught in a nightmarish Groundhog Day-like time-loop.
Then to add on to that craziness, there’s a killer on the loose trying to kill her in that time-loop. The second film then went ahead and introduced alternate dimensions among other fun and weird things. I like that they will be moving the story to later on down the road.
The filmmaker then went on to discuss the potential title for the third movie, saying: “It does not have the ‘3’ in there! But it’s called Happy Death Day to Us. That is the working title.”
Hopefully, Blumhouse moves on this sequel!
