5 Years Later, an Underrated Time-Loop Thriller Might Get the Ending it Deserves

Genre mash-ups tend to bite off more than they can chew, but that’s never been the case for the Happy Death Day franchise. The time-loop slasher began as , and those involved with that film really want to bring those two worlds together.

“I will always be trumpeting Freaky Death Day ‘til I die,” said Michael Kennedy, who wrote Freaky alongside Landon. “Katherine Newton wants to make the movie, so does Jessica Rothe. I know Chris is interested.”

At this point, the only obstacle appears to be Universal’s bookkeepers. Per Landon, the studio lost interest in Happy Death Day 3 after Happy Death Day 2U failed to make a mark at the box office; ditto for a Freaky follow-up.

“It’s very rare that you make a second sequel after a movie that didn’t perform very well,” Blum told Inverse in 2020. But the producer continues to fight for the franchise’s future, so let’s hope his efforts pay off and we get a chance to relive another time loop with Tree Gelbman.