With Scream 7 hitting this weekend, I’m already looking forward to Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come and today, with tickets now on sale, we have an extended seven-minute clip, new posters and some new details from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who say they’d rather be spending time with Samara Weaving’s Grace than Ghostface.
Speaking on the sequel, which sees Weaving’s Grace teaming up with her sister, Faith, played by Kathryn Newton, to take on the extended family who, once again, want her dead to please an ancient curse and also to make them very, very rich.
“We held our feet to the fire to make sure that everything that happens here, when you go back to the first movie, it heightens it,” Bettinelli-Olpin says, “The two movies are in conversation with each other. There’s a handshake between them.”
Hinting that, if successful, the story of Grace and Faith may continue (technically, vampire horror Abigail is also part of this universe) with more movies: “It’s just been the best fucking experience,” says Gillett, “We’ll make them until they tell us to stop.”
This harkens back to writer Guy Busick saying last summer that there’s still a bigger story to be explored after this movie: “… there is a bigger story. So, who are the other families and are they connected? Could there be a network of families that have made these Faustian bargains with the mysterious Le Bail character? And what would that look like?’ Those questions just became a lot of fun to chase.”
Speaking about how it’s more exciting to make Ready or Not movies than to make Scream movies – the duo directed Scream (2022) and Scream VI – Bettinelli-Olpin says: “We love the first movie. It’s so special to us. [It’s] wildly, wildly personal and the opportunity to make a sequel came with a lot of excitement and pressure that we maybe didn’t feel in the same way with Scream. Six movies in, that franchise very clearly is what it is.”
Gillet explained: “It was like, how do we really challenge the material and make something that gives you all of the flavour and fun of the first movie, but feels very different, and very much its own thing?”
As for the second movie and where it kicks off, it’s a rare sequel that picks up immediately after the first movie, mostly because they really wanted to torture Grace: “For us, we just loved the idea of, okay, what if the character didn’t get the rest that she has earned and deserves? What if we threw her back to the wolves immediately? Knowing Samara as well – and knowing what she could do with that as a very basic setup – was just a really exciting opportunity and challenge for us.”
The first movie is one of my favourite horror movies in recent memory, and I can’t wait to see this one.
Thoughts? I know you have ’em and I wanna hear ’em all.
Watch the extended clip:
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side.
Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett
Cast: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Kevin Durand, Olivia Cheng, Varun Saranga, Daniel Beirne
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come in theaters March 20th
Samara Weaving really wants you to buy a ticket:
Don’t make her say it twice. READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME tickets are NOW on sale, only in theaters March 20th. https://t.co/OQFzdtuwV8 pic.twitter.com/NcYGIyomGg
— Searchlight Pictures (@searchlightpics) February 23, 2026
WATCH: A new bloody trailer is here for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come! New poster too!
Source: SFX
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