After enjoying a well-received run at the box office (bringing in more than $120 million globally), it was announced earlier this year that a sequel to Happy Death Day is moving forward at Blumhouse and Universal, and with the teaser trailer for Happy Death Day 2U currently playing ahead of the new Halloween in theaters, the first poster for the movie has been unveiled online.
Blumhouse's Happy Death Day 2U will be released in theaters by Universal Pictures on Valentine's Day (February 14th) of 2019, and you can view the new poster below (via Facebook).
Deadline previously reported that the Happy Death Day sequel will feature the return of Jessica Rothe as Tree Gelbman, a college student who relived her own gruesome murder in a time loop on her birthday—a vicious cycle that stayed in motion until Rothe could either uncover her killer or die trying.
While most of the plot details for Happy Death Day 2U have yet to be unveiled, Variety reports that the sequel will show how Tree “dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.”
Rothe is joined in the sequel by Israel Broussard, who reprises his role as Carter Davis, Tree's classmate, confidante, and eventual love interest in the first film. Newcomers to the cast reportedly include Suraj Sharma as "Samar Ghosh, a science enthusiast and geek who enjoys coding in his spare time" and Sarah Yarkin as "Dre Morgan, a science geek and tom-boy with a sleepy feline gaze who is Samar’s partner-in-crime."
Christopher Landon is back behind the camera to direct the sequel for Blumhouse, which was previously described by Rothe as having a Back to the Future vibe in an interview with Collider:
"Chris has done this incredible thing where the sequel, the way he described it to me, elevates the movie from being a horror movie – and I wouldn’t even say it’s just a horror movie because it’s a horror, comedy, rom-com drama – into a Back to the Future type of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn’t get explained, and it elevates everything."
Happy Death Day producer Jason Blum returns in the same capacity for Happy Death Day 2U, with executive producers Angela Mancuso and John Baldecchi coming back for the sequel as well. They are joined by Samson Mucke (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), who also serves as an executive producer. We'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more info is revealed for Happy Death Day 2U.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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