Talk to me the directors offer an update on the sequel and have two scripts to choose from

The direction of the direction behind Talk to me, Danny AND Michael PhilippouI am not in a hurry to jump straight in the sequel to their horror success of breakout even if a24 greenlit Talk to me 2 in 2023.

While the brothers are preparing for the release Take it backThey recently offered a small but interesting update to Indiewire on the state of follow-up.

It turns out that they are blocked on a creative fork on the road. There are two different scripts for the sequel. Two different directions. And they can’t choose.

“A part of it is, I can’t decide which is the best way to take,” said Danny Philippou, confirming that he and the co-writer Bill Hinzman They developed two distinct plots.

But don’t expect a decision soon. The Philipos are juggling more projects. Michael is working on a documentary who are directing and Danny is immersing himself in a new horror film with Hinzman, whose details are still in phase. Only after that secret project has been completed, will they change their attention to Talk to me followed.

Michael threw a temporary time sequence (and very loose): “So I would say 2025 Take it back2026 The documentary, 2027 [the new] horror, and then Talk to me 2“Said Michael.” Maybe, I don’t know. “

However, A24 will probably not want to sit for too long. The original film was made for only $ 4.5 million and earned it on the first day. After collecting it from Sundance for a “seven figures”, the study clearly saw something special.

If you need an update: Talk to me It focuses on a group of friends who discover a way to evoke spirits using a mysterious embalmed hand. The high supernatural turns into pure nightmare fuel when one of them goes too far away, triggering a terrifying chain of events.