It looks like Blumhouse isn’t worried by the seeming dip in loved for the idea of shared universes that Universal’s Dark Universe experienced as he has revealed in a new interview (video at bottom of page).
Jason Blum, the man who’s company is behind franchsies such as Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Happy Death Day was asked in the interview if he would ever conside the idea of a shared universe made up of his scary worlds, to which he replied: “We would like to do that. We’re thinking about it. I probably should have – It would have been easier had I thought of it earlier, but we’re thinking of doing it – with some of them, anyway. And it’s something that I’d really like to do.”
It could be an intersting idea, but which franchises would belonf together? We can’t imagine the Happy Death Day movies being part of the bigger world of The Purge, for example.
One movie we know wouldn’t be part of the franchise (em, actually, on second thought, do we know?) is Halloween.
With the most recent instalment of the franchise seeing Jamie-Lee Curtis returning to the world that arguably made her famous and doing so well, no-one will be surprised to know a sequel is on the way: “I’m trying, I’m trying, trying. Not official yet but I’m trying,” Blum says.
No word on what this will mean – will Curtis’ Laurie Strode be back – who knows, but what we do know is what we already knew… there’s no keeping a good monster down.
What say you all?
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