Amanda Seyfried is on board for any “Jennifer’s Physique” sequel, which might come prior to later. The actress, although not confirming the movie, instructed Bloody Disgusting {that a} “Jennifer’s Physique 2” might be within the works quickly.
“I feel we’re making one other one,” Seyfried stated whereas on the crimson carpet for “Seven Veils.” “I didn’t affirm it! I stated, ‘I feel.’” IndieWire has reached out to representatives for Seyfried, screenwriter Diablo Cody, and director Karyn Kusama for additional remark.
“Jennifer’s Physique” was launched in 2009. Whereas the characteristic barely broke even on the field workplace, the now-iconic movie is taken into account to be a feminist horror basic. Seyfried stars as Needy, whose greatest pal Jennifer (Megan Fox) is the highschool queen bee. Nevertheless, after Jennifer is sacrificed by the lead singer (Adam Brody) of a band touring by means of city, she is left as a half-girl, half-demon who feasts on unsuspecting boys to outlive.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody instructed Bloody Disgusting in 2024 that she is “not performed” with the world of “Jennifer’s Physique” throughout its 15-year anniversary. “I need to do a sequel. I’m not performed with ’Jennifer’s Physique,’” Cody stated. “I must accomplice with individuals who imagine it in [sic] as a lot as I do and that hasn’t actually occurred but. I want somebody to imagine in it who has a billion {dollars}.”
In 2024 whereas speaking about her “Lisa Frankenstein” script, Cody instructed IndieWire about renewed curiosity in a possible “Jennifer Physique’s” sequel. “I had no thought individuals would get so enthusiastic about that,” Cody stated. “I used to be delighted to see the response, I’m going to clip these articles and present them to all of the people who find themselves like, ‘We don’t suppose that is such a good suggestion.’ Carry it into the people who I must inexperienced mild it.”
She instructed IndieWire that the renewed chatter round a possible sequel actually excited her. “It’s the most effective factor that’s ever occurred to me in my profession, it’s like whole validation,” she stated of the continued fandom across the movie. “It got here late, I’m OK with that, I’ve made my peace with that. I went by means of quite a bit when that film got here out, simply private assaults. It was about extra than simply the film. … I at all times believed in it, however I did lose my confidence. If individuals hadn’t rediscovered ‘Jennifer’s Physique,’ I’d not have written ‘Lisa Frankenstein.’ With that entire space, that style, I sort of felt unwelcome in it, as a result of I had flopped so laborious on my final try.”
In the meantime, Seyfried subsequent stars in Mona Fastvold‘s upcoming “Ann Lee” musical, which facilities on the founding father of the Shaker Motion within the late 1770s. The musical biopic is co-written by Fastvold and her “The Brutalist” collaborator and real-life accomplice Brady Corbet.
Seyfried instructed Vainness Honest that taking pictures Fastvold and Corbet’s secret indie movie after wrapping the upcoming Peacock restricted sequence “Lengthy Vivid River,” was robust. “I went to hell and again,” Seyfried stated of the demanding back-to-back initiatives. “Oh, my God. What the fuck? Even my assistant’s like, ‘It is advisable to take a break,’” Seyfried stated. “We might solely do [‘Ann Lee’] in the summertime. … We moved everyone to Budapest, together with my canine. Then we did a loopy factor. We did a loopy factor.” She added of the musical, “I don’t know the way it’s going to prove.”