This Is Not the ‘Discuss to Me’ Sequel We Had in Thoughts

A couple of years in the past, sibling directing duo Danny and Michael Philippou made the leap from viral YouTube movies to the Hollywood A-list, with A24 selecting up their breakout function Discuss to Me. On the time, the brothers teased their sequel ambitions, and a follow-up to the horror hit was officially greenlit in August of 2023. Now we now have information of extra Discuss to Me on the way in which, nevertheless it’s not the cinematic sequel followers have been ready for.

In response to Variety, the Discuss to Me universe will increase with a sequence of six half-hour episodes “created solely for Meta headsets and shot totally in 3D, making for a completely immersive XR expertise that may enable horror followers to really feel like they’re dwelling out the fear.”

That terror, in fact, will draw on the film’s premise: a disembodied hand with the facility to own anybody adventurous or silly sufficient to seize ahold of it. A short jaunt into the spirit realm could also be thrilling, nevertheless it will also be extraordinarily harmful, because the Discuss to Me characters be taught when their social gathering recreation takes an irresponsible flip. “Trapped in a hell dimension” isn’t a good way to spend your prime years, youngsters!

It seems like that lesson shall be realized anew, because the sequence will comply with “a bunch of younger vacationers chasing the final word social gathering on a European island till they uncover the Hand, a supernatural excessive deadlier than any drug.”

Whereas the Philippous are aboard as government producers, a brand new artistic group is guiding the Meta and XRTV sequence collaboration. Darren Brandl got here up with the idea with Trent Atherton, with Atherton writing all six episodes; Craig William Macneill (Fort Rock, Westworld) is the director.

Brandl is the co-founder of XRTV, and in a press release to Selection, he defined why Discuss to Me was an excellent challenge for “prolonged actuality,” or XR.

“The promise of XR is this concept that we will now map the story into your individual area so you are feeling such as you’re inside it … its superpower is presence: that awe of being transported, the unsettling feeling {that a} demon is with you—in your room,” he advised the commerce; as for style bona fines, he’s additionally a part of Eli Roth’s CryptTV, which creates digital horror content material.

“Discuss to Me is the proper immersive IP as a result of it’s about younger adults who search the Hand to expertise the euphoria of possession however find yourself suffering from breaking by way of to the spirit world. It made possession enjoyable, and the scares unforgettable.”

In different phrases, the Discuss to Me sequence goals to make you are feeling such as you’re truly possessed, which is definitely intriguing.

Nevertheless, we’re nonetheless holding out hope for Discuss to Me 2 to hit theaters finally, bringing a much more accessible (if much less immersive) continuation of the story to followers. And that appears to nonetheless be within the playing cards; when the Philippous launched Convey Her Again earlier this yr, they spoke in regards to the sequel in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

“Once we submitted Convey Her Again to a number of the funding locations, they have been like, ‘What about Discuss to Me 2?’ So there was strain from individuals,” Danny Philippou advised THR in Might. “[Talk to Me 2] was going to be the subsequent challenge, however I used to be like, ‘I actually, actually need to make [Bring Her Back]. Is it okay if I make this one?’ So A24 was on board, they usually allowed us to.”

Michael Philippou added, “To go straight into Discuss to Me 2 all the time felt like it might simply be capitalizing on hype, versus what’s the fitting story we need to inform subsequent. We would have liked a break from Discuss to Me 2 so we will revisit it with recent eyes.”

As of but, there’s no launch date or title for the Discuss to Me sequence from Meta and XRTV.

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