Jaume Collet-Serra hit the gold mine when he directed Netflix’s current Christmas motion flick, Carry On, which starred Taron Egerton as a TSA agent blackmailed by a gaggle of worldwide terrorists on Christmas Eve. Carry On was a serious success for Netflix, breaking into the streamer’s High 5 most watched motion pictures of all-time checklist. Collet-Serrra is now again to hopefully make lightning strike twice with a brand new horror/thriller that has been described as a mix between Do not Breathe and 1917.
Per Deadline, Jaume Collet-Serra is about to direct Play Useless, a brand new authentic survival thriller. The script is being penned by Peter Stanley-Ward and Natalie Conway. Little or no is understood about Play Useless, aside from its two most important inspirations, which got here from one in every of Deadline’s sources. Do not Breathe and 1917 could not be additional aside in phrases style. The previous, directed by Alien: Romulus‘ Fede Álvarez, was a horror/thriller a few group of inept thieves being locked into the house of and hunted by a conflict veteran, whereas Sam Mendes’ 1917 was a one-shot World Conflict I film about two troopers racing to the entrance line to stop the Allied forces falling right into a lure.
Jaume Collet-Serra has an extended historical past of leaping between genres. In addition to the immensely profitable motion flick, Carry On, Collet-Serra isn’t any stranger to the horror style, having directed 2005’s Home of Wax and the creepy 2009 horror hit Orphan — through which a bereaved husband and spouse undertake a “9-year-old” woman who is not all that she appears. Exterior the horror style, Collet-Serra has additionally tackled massive funds blockbusters. Like Gore Verbinski did with Pirates of the Caribbean, Jaume Collet-Serra introduced Disney’s Jungle Cruise trip to the massive display in 2021, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Collet-Serra additionally directed the Dwayne Johnson-led Black Adam — which did not change the “hierarchy of energy within the DC Universe,” as Johnson incessantly repeated through the film’s promotional tour.
Will ‘Carry On’ Get a Sequel?
It is virtually a given these days that any immensely profitable film shall be greenlit for at the least one sequel, with the hopes of remodeling it right into a money cow franchise. Though, within the case of Carry On, that may not be the case. “We have no plans for a sequel,” Collet-Sera revealed in January. Nonetheless, he and Netflix each seem like open to the concept of Carry On 2 (which must be referred to as Hold Calm and Carry On) if the precise concept comes about. “But when audiences wished a sequel, households wished a sequel and if we had an concept that might spark and dwell as much as the unique perhaps we might do one thing. However proper now, there aren’t any plans.”
If Carry On is given a sequel, Jaume Collet-Serra revealed that the second installment might transfer away from Egerton’s Ethan Kopek, and give attention to one of many film’s secondary characters, like detective Elena Cole, performed by Danielle Deadwyler. Carry On is streaming on Netflix.
Play Useless has no official launch date.