Blumhouse’s 2018 horror film Truth or Dare it was actually a great success. The movie wasn’t quite the best movie, but it was made on a budget of $3.5 million and ended up grossing $95 million at the box office. That’s a huge profit and, surprisingly, they didn’t follow up on that. But there was an idea for a sequel and it sounds like it would be a fun movie!
Truth or Dare director Jeff Wadlow offered some insight into the unproduced sequel in an interview with Variety, saying:
“We actually wrote a sequel to ‘Truth or Dare.’ In the first one there are about nine characters and seven of them die. I didn’t want to make a ‘Final Destination’ or ‘Truth or Dare’ style sequel and it’s happening to a different group of people again. It just seemed a bit boring.”
Wadlow goes on to explain that the idea for the sequel came to him from real-life friendships between cast members from the first film. They jokingly floated the idea of a meta sequel in which they play themselves, and after the concept was pitched to Wadlow, he wrote a screenplay titled Truth or Dare, IRL. The whole concept was inspired by Wes CravenS New nightmare. Wadlow revealed:
“It starts with Markie and Olivia, Lucy and [Violett Beane’s] characters. I’m in this scene, and it looks like our “Truth or Dare” scene from “Final Destination,” and Markie starts laughing in the middle of it. He hears: “Cut!” and the director walks onto the set, and we do the ‘New Nightmare’ treatment where we reveal that Lucy and Violett are still friends. They will go on this trip with the other actors from “Truth or Dare”, with Tyler, Landon [Liboiron] and Sam [Lerner].
“Everyone who was in the first movie are all friends, and we find out that what happened is that the writers of the first movie had researched a real demon. Just like Calux can haunt a game in the movie, he has now decided to haunt a movie in the real world. It was scary and surreal and funny and played a lot with subjectivity.
That would have been a great way to handle the sequel! So why didn’t Blumhouse move forward with the project? Producer Jason Blum ordered Truth or Dare to be filmed IRL during the onset of the covid-19 quarantine, and during that time everything fell apart.
Wadlow doesn’t think the sequel will get made now, saying “The ship has sailed.” It seems like it would have been a better movie than the first.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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