Star Jessica Rothe says that a third Happy Death Day is “all worked out” – they just need the stars to align in order to make it.
2017’s Happy Death Day is an absolute gem of a horror flick – a gleefully bloody riff on Groundhog Day that sees Jessica Rothe‘s insufferable college queen bee, the wonderfully monikered Tree Gelbman murdered on her birthday – over and over again. She eventually solves her own murder, of course, learning to be a better person along the way, which made her a much more appealing (but maybe a scooch less fun) protagonist for 2019’s Happy Death Day 2U, where she got up to some parallel universe shenanigans while evading another masked slasher.
But we’ve been waiting a while for Happy Death Day 3 – seven years already! – and if you started to think that it’d never eventuate, who could blame you? But in a recent interview with ScreenRant, Rothe assured fans that plans were still afoot – it’s just getting everyone together that’s proved a bit fiddly.
“I think that is the power of zeitgeist. I think the more we ask, and the more we put it into the universe, it will happen,” Rothe says. “The truth is, Chris Landon — our brilliant, fearless writer-director — he has the whole third one figured out, and I’m sure he also has his version of the MCU, but the ‘ChrisCU’ with Freaky and Happy Death Day, and We Have a Ghost and Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse, they all could totally live in the same universe. That’s the crossover that I need right now in my life.
“I think, at this point, it’s just logistics,” she continues. “All I’ll say to you and to all the fans is, whether it’s next year or when I’m 65, pulling a Jamie Lee Curtis coming back for Halloween, I will be there to finish Tree’s story.”
So, in progress, but maybe not any time soon.
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