Smile 2’s Director Thinks the Franchise Can Get Even Wilder

In 2022, Smile released and became a beauteous large hit, owing to its simple, but effectual premise: an invisible demon disguised arsenic assorted smiling radical terrorizes someone, who past kills themselves successful beforehand of idiosyncratic else, passing the curse onto them. The ocular of idiosyncratic conscionable endlessly smiling astatine you is creepy capable connected its own, and Paramount marketed the hellhole retired of the thing, truthful it made a ton of money. And if director/writer Parker Finn has his way, we’ll beryllium seeing much of that weird smile for rather immoderate time.

Talking to SFX Magazine, Finn discussed his appraoch to Smile 2, which is dropping successful October. Obviously, the sequel volition “show america caller things,” but helium besides explained that immoderate of its ideas were carried implicit from its predecessor. He didn’t springiness the crippled away, but it sounds similar there’s plentifulness much to larn astir the Smiling Demon and its full deal. If you thought the archetypal movie “uncovered the mystery,” Finn said the reveals successful that 1 were much similar “a azygous solid of h2o retired of the ocean.”

Where the archetypal Smile centered connected a therapist who witnessed her patient’s suicide, Smile 2 stars Naomi Scott arsenic a popular prima present unfortunate capable to beryllium the demon’s adjacent victim. It makes for a important power up, and having a celebrated idiosyncratic arsenic the protagonist widens the scope. Finn never been shy astir his hopes that this becomes a franchise, and helium reiterated that he’d imaginable followups to beryllium versatile arsenic this one. “You tin find yourself successful antithetic stories, antithetic characters, antithetic worlds,” helium noted. “It’s truly amusive to representation a lineage of Smile movies wherever each 1 becomes much disconnected the rails than the erstwhile one.”

But earlier we get to Smile 3, 4, and truthful on, we’ve got to get past Smile 2, which hits theaters connected October 18.

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