Everyone loves seconds on Thanksgiving. So why not a second Thanksgiving?
And, in reality, that’s what is going on, with Eli Roth already directing that work has begun on a sequel to Thanksgiving, his latest slasher movie which has develop into a stable important and business hit in theaters this fall. So far the movie has grossed $30 million worldwide, and ranked up a genuinely spectacular 83 p.c on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. (It’s Roth’s greatest reviewed movie of his complete profession.)
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According to the press launch on the information, Thanksgiving was “started when [Roth and co-writer Jeff Rendell] were both kids going to see slasher films.” The idea first appeared as a phony trailer in Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 double function that mimicked a evening’s fare at an exploitation theater — together with two full-length movies and several other trailers for films that, no less than on the time, didn’t truly exist. (Besides Thanksgiving, each Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun from Grindhouse have since gone on to develop into full-fledged options.) The first movie is about a collection of murders in a small Massachusetts city perpetrated by a mysterious killer in a John Carver masks.
Roth himself posted concerning the information on Instagram, writing “Thank you everyone who supported ORIGINAL HORROR in theaters!!!” He additionally famous that he and Rendell are going to write down the screenplay collectively as soon as once more, however they’re going to take a 12 months to do it and “really get the script right.”
Thanksgiving 2 will open worldwide in 2025. The authentic Thanksgiving continues to be enjoying in theaters now.

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