Alright so we all know about the scariest movie of the year: Paranormal Activity. I've been reading up on the movie and found out that it was made under a budget of $15,000 and returned back $9.1 million. Looking at the profit, the director thinks it would just be stupid not to make a sequel. So.......... What do you guys think? Will you see it, what do you think the plot will be, so on and so forth.
l0l if you're gonna start a thread on a movie. At least give information on it:
Saw VI Director To Helm Paranormal Activity 2
A couple of months ago we heard word that
Paramount is planning Paranormal Activity 2, when Viacom (the company that owns paramount) CEO Philippe Dauman brought it up at an earnings meeting. He acknowledged that the element of surprise will be gone for a sequel but that,
“Our team will come up with the right creative and marketing approach to make sure that we benefit from a sequel…”
Now it appears that at least part of that team has been assembled: According to
Heat Vision Blog, Paramount has acquired Saw VI director, Kevin Greutert, to helm
Paranormal Activity 2. Boy, talk about switching directions… They’ve also brought on board Law & Order: Special Victim Unit writer/producer Michael R. Perry to handle the script. Plot details and even the official title are being kept under wraps for the time being.
Not only has a director and writer been found for the sequel, but the studio is also eying a date for release: October 22nd, 2010. That means just like the first film, it will be going head-to-head with another Saw sequel (Saw VII in 3D).
Last month it was reported on the fact that Paramount launched an initiative to spend $1 million a year on microbudget films that cost $100,000 or less. They’re plan is obviously to replicate the success that
Paranormal Activity and
The Blair Witch Project had. Paramount is already releasing PA director Oren Peli’s next film,
Area 51. It's a wonder whether the budget will be kept small on
Paranormal Activity 2 or whether they’ll throw a bigger budget at it this time around, as they did with
Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows.
Is it a worry that a director who made his directorial debut with
Saw VI last year is going to helm
Paranormal Activity 2? Will this mean that we’ll get a gorier film, as opposed to the atmospheric scares that made the first film so effective? Well, Gruetert isn’t writing the script, so that may not be the case, but it seems an odd choice considering PA was done in one style of horror (non-gory), and now they’re bringing on a director whose last horror film was gory-as-hell.
Paranormal Activity producers, Oren Peli and Jason Blum, will serve as producers for the sequel, so at least fans of the first can take a bit of comfort in that fact.
As stated,
Paranormal Activity 2 is planned to be unleashed in theaters on October 22nd, 2010.
Source:
Screenrant