It looks likeDon’t Breathe 2is indeed happening and, quite importantly,Stephen Langis involved. We first heard news of a sequel in late 2016, not long after the firstDon’t Breathehad finished cleaning up in a big way at the box office. Word has been pretty quiet ever since, but now, star Stephen Lang confirms thatDon’t Breathe 2is happening. We still have a lot of questions, but this is potentially great news for horror fans.
Stephen Lang is going to be busy filming James Cameron’s four upcomingAvatarsequels, but it sounds like he’s making room forDon’t Breathe 2in there somewhere. It still hasn’t been revealed when the movie is happening, butdirector Fede Alvarez has been working on itand, according to Lang in a recent interview, he’s confident it’s happening. Here’s what he had to say when asked about it.
“Oh yeah, we’re doing a sequel.”
Don’t Breathe 2doesn’t currently have a plot synopsis or anything like that, and Fede Alvarez is being quiet on the details. For now. So it wasn’t a guarantee that Stephen Lang’s character from the first movie would return. Not that a sequel without him would make much sense, but this does, aside from confirming that the movie is indeed happening, also confirm Lang’s involvement. Last year, Alvarez did talk a bit aboutDon’t Breathe 2and his initial hesitation to pursue it.
“Right now, yeah, Don’t Breathe 2 is something we definitely want to do. The challenge obviously is, we justdon’t want to do the same movie again, slap a ‘2’ on it. We’ll feel so embarrassed if we do that. Our first reaction when they told us, ‘Do you want to do it?’ was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That’s Hollywood! That’s the devil! We don’t want to make a sequel just because we can.’ But then we got an idea that we’re really excited about, and I won’t tell you what it is because it willspoil the whole thing.”
Don’t Breathewas quite thebreath of fresh air, if you will, for the horror genre and it’s great that the creative team isn’t just moving ahead with a sequel for the sake of it. Sam Raimi, who serves as a producer on the first movie and the upcoming sequel, says “It’s only the greatest idea for a sequel that I’ve ever heard! I’m not kidding!” That, coming from the man who madeEvil Dead 2andSpider-Man 2, should say something.
The ending of the originalDon’t Breathecertainly left the door open for a sequel, but it also totally works as a complete experience on its own. However, from Sony’s perspective, there’s money to be made with another movie.Don’t Breathemade $157.1 million worldwide from a budget of under $10 million. Not only that, but the movie did quite well critically, currently sitting at 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. As for when we could expectDon’t Breathe 2? Fede Alvarez is currently working onThe Girl in the Spider’s Weband is also attached to theLabyrinthsequel. Stephen Lang couldn’t shed any light on that during his interview withScreen Rant, but the movie is coming. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take too long to get going.
