It seems like Completely happy Dying Day 3 may be useless, at the least based on the movie’s director. Christopher Landon has emerged as an thrilling voice in horror-comedies because of his work on movies like Scouts Information to the Zombie Apocalypse, Freaky, and the double invoice of Completely happy Dying Day and Completely happy Dying Day 2U. Each Completely happy Dying Day movies bought optimistic critiques from critics, and followers have been largely awaiting the information of a 3rd entry. Sadly, they could need to preserve their expectations in examine, although, based on Landon.
Talking with SFX Journal by way of GamesRadar, Landon stated he had not heard something from Common or Blumhouse about Completely happy Dying Day 3. He did say at one level that the studio was contemplating making the third entry within the franchise a miniseries that might air on Peacock, much like The Continental: From the Phrase of John Wick. It sounds just like the studio has gone radio silent on the undertaking, and Landon by no means started work on a script attributable to not eager to get his hopes up. Landon stated:
“I did not write the script as a result of I by no means need to depend my chickens and get forward of myself. However I used to be able to go and begin penning this, however then it was form of like, it was bizarre. We had a whole lot of matches and spurts by way of possibly we’ll do it. At one level they talked about it changing into a three-part occasion factor for [streaming service] Peacock, which was form of bizarre. I used to be like, ‘Alriiiiiight! No matter it takes.’ However then it went away and that was the final we ever heard of it – which was years in the past.”
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By the top of 2019, it appeared like Completely happy Dying Day 3 was not occurring because of the field workplace efficiency of Completely happy Dying Day 2U. Nevertheless, in September 2020, Landon stated that the third movie, tentatively titled Completely happy Dying Day to Us, was in improvement with star Jessica Rothe set to reprise her position. Landon said he was engaged on a top level view and reportedly pitched the undertaking to Common Photos by 2023. Within the two years since, no information has come out, and Landon displays on the franchise’s trajectory, saying:
“It has been an fascinating journey as a result of each films had been financially very profitable, so I feel it is left us and a whole lot of followers scratching their heads as to why we weren’t allowed to make a 3rd. However I do not management the purse strings, I do not name these photographs. That is fully as much as Blumhouse and Common, if they’ve an urge for food or curiosity in it.”
The Probabilities of ‘Completely happy Dying Day 3’ Taking place Are Slim
Completely happy Dying Day opened in theaters on Oct. 13, 2017, completely timed to Friday the thirteenth, and grossed $55 million domestically and $125 million worldwide. It made again its $4.8 million price range on its opening day. The movie’s premise is a younger school woman named Tree Gellman (Roth) who’s murdered on the evening of her birthday however begins repeatedly reliving the day, at which level she units out to search out the killer and cease her demise. It was successful with audiences, and a sequel was rapidly greenlit.
The sequel, Completely happy Dying Day 2U, arrived on one other Friday the thirteenth, Feb. 13, 2019. Nevertheless, the sequel was seen as a field workplace disappointment, grossing simply $28 million domestically and $64 million worldwide. Regardless of making again its $9 million price range, the truth that the sequel grossed half of what the unique made might need put the brakes on any hopes for a 3rd movie. With it having been six years because the sequel and eight years because the first movie, the thought of seeing Completely happy Dying Day to Us appears unlikely.
Landon has since moved on. In 2020, he directed the horror comedy Freaky, whose body-swap premise was pitched as Freaky Friday meets Friday the thirteenth. Some followers had been even hoping for a crossover between Freaky and Completely happy Dying Day, one thing Landon himself hinted at. Landon was initially hooked up to direct Scream VII earlier than dropping out of the undertaking. His subsequent movie, Drop, opens in theaters on Apr. 11, 2025, and appears to be one other enjoyable authentic horror movie. Blumhouse and Common Photos additionally produce Drop, so possibly if that movie does nicely sufficient, Landon can lastly get Completely happy Dying Day 3 or Completely happy Dying Day to Us or no matter they resolve to name it.
Supply: SFX Journal