Thanksgiving 2 is officially a go, announces director Eli Roth
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Thanksgiving 2 has officially been greenlit.
The slasher, based on a viral fake trailer created by Roth and writing partner Rendell for Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, has grossed $30 million against a $15 million budget in just two weeks at the box office. Nell Verlaque stars as Jessica, the daughter of a greedy CEO (Rick Hoffman) whose supermarket was the site of a fatal Black Friday riot. One year after the riot, a killer – dressed as a pilgrim and wielding an axe – comes to town in order to take revenge against the people he deems responsible. Patrick Dempsey, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Joe Delfin, Milo Manheim, Gina Gershon, Addison Rae, Gabriel Davenport, and Jenna Warren also star.
Rothpreviously told SFXthat he’d be down for making a Thanksgiving cinematic universe of sorts.
“Every shot, we’re like, ‘Oh, the Thanksgivingverse’ – we joke about it,” Roth said “Look, if you give people a rich mythology, and a great killer, and a great backstory, and a good mask, the story can go in any number of directions. Part of what we spent so long on was coming up with the backstory, the mythology, the reason, and the potential suspects for who could be doing this. I have a million different ways I could take the story. I love it. I could spend the rest of my life making Thanksgiving movies.”
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.
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