Now that Pooh: Blood & Honey is slashing it up in theaters, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield has spoken beforehand about his want to maintain the “youngsters characters as slasher villains” prepare a-going. Together with producing a horror flick targeted on Bambi that’s presently in manufacturing and cooking up concepts for a Peter Pan movie, Frake-Waterfield’s additionally bought a want to herald youngsters properties exterior of these generally related to Disney.
Talking with Collider, Frake-Waterfield was requested about what properties he’d be excited by engaged on. The solutions had been Teletubbies and Ninja Turtles, of all issues. Although this was supposed as a enjoyable thought train, he had some specifics on what he’d do with the Turtles, which he mentioned had a “horrifying undertone” as a consequence of their complete idea of being mutant turtles raised by a speaking rat man. “I’d like to have them like down an alleyway slicing individuals up, feeding them to their rat king on pizza or one thing,” he mentioned. “All of it simply begins to hyperlink collectively to me, so I’d love to try this.”
Copyrights stop Frake-Waterfield from getting his palms on both the Teletubbies or Turtles, both of which presently or will quickly have new variations begin up pretty quickly. However what he will have the ability to make is a Pooh sequel, because the film has already earned $2 million on the field workplace due to its January launch in Mexico and present theatrical run in the US. He and the remainder of Jagged Edge are already cooking up a sequel, and one which’ll have a a lot bigger finances than the $100,000 of the primary movie.
“I’m hoping that, at minimal, it’s going to have 5 occasions the finances of the primary one,” he advised Leisure Weekly. “But it surely could possibly be considerably greater than that as properly. […] When you might have more cash for a movie, you get extra time, you get cooler scenes, you’ll be able to actually spend extra time refining issues.” Nevertheless, he admitted to eager to pursue different initiatives past grisly IP fare, and mentioned that might preserve him from directing Pooh 2. “I could be concerned, and produce them, and get them transferring…I’m nonetheless within the levels of excited about that in the meanwhile.”
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