This Is Not the ‘Discuss to Me’ Sequel We Had in Thoughts

Just a few years in the past, sibling directing duo Danny and Michael Philippou made the leap from viral YouTube movies to the Hollywood A-list, with A24 selecting up their breakout characteristic Discuss to Me. On the time, the brothers teased their sequel ambitions, and a follow-up to the horror hit was officially greenlit in August of 2023. Now now we have information of extra Discuss to Me on the way in which, however it’s not the cinematic sequel followers have been ready for.

Based on Variety, the Discuss to Me universe will increase with a collection of six half-hour episodes “created solely for Meta headsets and shot totally in 3D, making for a totally immersive XR expertise that can enable horror followers to really feel like they’re residing out the fear.”

That terror, in fact, will draw on the film’s premise: a disembodied hand with the ability to own anybody adventurous or silly sufficient to seize ahold of it. A quick jaunt into the spirit realm could also be thrilling, however it can be extraordinarily harmful, because the Discuss to Me characters be taught when their get together recreation takes an irresponsible flip. “Trapped in a hell dimension” just isn’t an effective way to spend your prime years, children!

It feels like that lesson might be discovered anew, because the collection will observe “a gaggle of younger vacationers chasing the last word get together on a European island till they uncover the Hand, a supernatural excessive deadlier than any drug.”

Whereas the Philippous are aboard as government producers, a brand new inventive staff is guiding the Meta and XRTV collection collaboration. Darren Brandl got here up with the idea with Trent Atherton, with Atherton writing all six episodes; Craig William Macneill (Citadel Rock, Westworld) is the director.

Brandl is the co-founder of XRTV, and in an announcement to Selection, he defined why Discuss to Me was a perfect challenge for “prolonged actuality,” or XR.

“The promise of XR is this concept that we are able to now map the story into your personal area so you’re feeling such as you’re inside it … its superpower is presence: that awe of being transported, the unsettling feeling {that a} demon is with you—in your room,” he instructed the commerce; as for style bona fines, he’s additionally a part of Eli Roth’s CryptTV, which creates digital horror content material.

“Discuss to Me is the proper immersive IP as a result of it’s about younger adults who search the Hand to expertise the euphoria of possession however find yourself laid low with breaking via to the spirit world. It made possession enjoyable, and the scares unforgettable.”

In different phrases, the Discuss to Me collection goals to make you’re feeling such as you’re truly possessed, which is definitely intriguing.

Nonetheless, we’re nonetheless holding out hope for Discuss to Me 2 to hit theaters ultimately, bringing a much more accessible (if much less immersive) continuation of the story to followers. And that appears to nonetheless be within the playing cards; when the Philippous launched Carry Her Again earlier this yr, they spoke concerning the sequel in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

“After we submitted Carry Her Again to a number of the funding locations, they have been like, ‘What about Discuss to Me 2?’ So there was stress from folks,” Danny Philippou instructed THR in Might. “[Talk to Me 2] was going to be the subsequent challenge, however I used to be like, ‘I actually, actually need to make [Bring Her Back]. Is it okay if I make this one?’ So A24 was on board, they usually allowed us to.”

Michael Philippou added, “To go straight into Discuss to Me 2 at all times felt like it could simply be capitalizing on hype, versus what’s the correct story we need to inform subsequent. We would have liked a break from Discuss to Me 2 so we are able to revisit it with contemporary eyes.”

As of but, there’s no launch date or title for the Discuss to Me collection from Meta and XRTV.

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