Directed by brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, the horror movie Talk to Me has scared up an impressive $26 million worldwide for A24 in the last couple weeks, and Bloody Disgusting has learned this afternoon that a sequel is already on the way!
Danny and Michael Philippou will return to direct Talk to Me 2 for A24! The Australian duo got their start with the popular YouTube channel RackaRacka, launched back in 2013.
Danny Philippou is writing the screenplay with Bill Hinzman (Talk to Me).
Talk to Me was made on a reported production budget of just $4.5 million, which the movie was able to earn back in its first day of release. A24 acquired the film out of Sundance for a reported “high seven figures,” and it looks like that gamble is paying off big time for them.
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The brutal terror of Talk to Me unfolds when “a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand; they become hooked on the new thrill until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.” Sophia Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Otis Djanji, and Zoe Terakes star in the A24 horror hit.
In her Sundance review for BD, Meagan Navarro wrote, “Talk to Me delivers an intense, nightmarish horror movie that’ll leave you breathless.” Her review continued, “There’s a refreshing ruthlessness to this cautionary tale that plays like a surge of adrenaline; it makes for one hell of an introduction to Danny and Michael Philippou’s brand of horror.”
It’s interesting to note that the Philippou brothers already shot some kind of prequel to the shocking opening sequence of Talk to Me, but we don’t know if/when that will be released.
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