Christopher Landon recently spoke with SFX magazine and talked about the possibility of a Happy Death Day 3.
"I didn't write the script because I never want to count my chickens and get ahead of myself. But I was ready to go and start writing this, but then it was sort of like, it was weird," Landon says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Black Mirror season 7 on the cover and hits newsstands on Wednesday, March 26.
At one stage it looked like the third installment in the time-traveling horror franchise was a sure thing, with a streaming service wanting to release it as a miniseries. "We had a lot of fits and spurts in terms of maybe we'll do it. At one point they talked about it becoming a three-part event thing for [streaming service] Peacock, which was kind of weird," adds Landon. "I was like, 'Alriiiiiight! Whatever it takes.' But then it went away and that was the last we ever heard of it – which was years ago."
Furthermore, he revealed that the ultimate fate of a third movie rests solely on the shoulders of Universal and Blumhouse.
"It's been an interesting journey because both movies were financially very successful, so I think it's left us and a lot of fans scratching their heads as to why we weren't allowed to make a third," says Landon. "But I don't control the purse strings, I don't call those shots. That's entirely up to Blumhouse and Universal, if they have an appetite or interest in it."
Source: GamesRadar+