Heart Eyes director Josh Ruben spoke with Variety about his new Valentines slasher. And, naturally, the topic of a potential sequel arose.
Could you see yourself directing a “Heart Eyes” sequel?
I’ll put it this way: You could replicate the structure of any great rom-com, from “His Girl Friday” to “Defending Your Life,” and you could drop Heart Eyes into the center of that story, and have him flash and slash about. That’s what’s exciting about this: There’s an opportunity that we could have whoever the filmmaker was — certainly, I’d be interested — genuinely trying to create or replicate that rom-com, or the feeling of a “Bridget Jones” or “Love Actually” or what have you, but actually have those people terrified by this psychopathic killer. That’s really, really exciting, because what it means is it has a potential for a long life. Then the trick becomes: How can we balance all of the fun new toys and gore with a story about two people falling in love, or even on the outs, that you actually care about emotionally? That’s the real success of this film. If it’s landing with anyone, it’s landing because these two have chemistry, and really the whole ensemble does. That’s going to be the trick. If you don’t have that, I think you’re dead in the water.
Source: Variety