Filmmaker Jeff Wadlow had a stellar sequel idea for a Truth or Dare sequel, but it doesn’t seem like Blumhouse will be moving forward with it.
In a new interview to promote his upcoming horror film Imaginary, Wadlow reveals he had a wild follow-up for the 2018 film planned, stating: “We actually wrote a Truth or Dare sequel. In the first one, there’s about nine characters, and seven of them die, and I didn’t want to do a Final Destination-style sequel, or ‘Truth or Dare, and it’s happening again to a different group of people.’ It just seemed kind of boring to me.”
That’s when a meta spin came into play, where we’d see the actors from the first film appear in a New Nightmare-like sequel, with Wadlow continuing: “They had become great friends and were going on trips together, hanging out in Big Bear. They had this idea: ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if Truth or Dare happened to us while we were on vacation together, the actors?’ The joke became that the sequel should be called Truth or Big Bear. I thought that was kind of a brilliant idea.
“So we wrote this script — Truth or Dare IRL — and it begins with Markie and Olivia, Lucy and Violett’s characters. They’re in this scene, and it feels like our Final Destination kind of Truth or Dare scene, and Markie starts laughing in the middle of it. You hear, ‘Cut!’ and the director walks on the set, and we do the New Nightmare treatment where we reveal that Lucy and Violett are still friends. They’re going to go on this trip with the other actors from Truth or Dare, Tyler, Landon, and Sam. Everyone who was in the first film, they’re all buddies, and we find out what happened is the writers of the first film had researched a real demon. Just as Calux can haunt a game in the film, he’s now decided to haunt a movie in the real world. It was scary and surreal and funny and played a lot with subjectivity.”
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Sadly, the pandemic killed the hopes, and Wadlow says it’s too late. “Too much time has passed,” he said. “But I think that would have been a lot of fun to make, and the audience would have dug it.”
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