Michael Dougherty Says TRICK 'R TREAT 2 Will "Peek Behind the Curtain More"
Two years ago it was announced that Legendary Pictures was officially putting Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat 2 into development. The first movie is a great horror film in so many ways, and I've watched it every Halloween night since it was released. It's my Halloween tradition! Trick 'r Treat was released six years ago, and Dougherty is in the process of bringing the sequel to life.
As a way to tide fans over until the sequel arrives, Dougherty cooked up a comic book called Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead, which you can read more about here in an interview we conducted with writers Todd Casey and Zach Shields. But while talking with Cinema Blend, Dougherty discussed the upcoming sequel and explained that they are going to go a little deeper in exploring the shadows of Halloween:
"I feel like the first film really just scratched the surface in terms of exploring what really goes on in the shadows of Halloween, and it was, for me, the first film is really just introducing audiences to the notion that, yes, strange creepy magical things do happen on Halloween and here’s a peek behind the curtain, and so, with the next film, we do want to peek behind the curtain more into asking why."
He went on to talk about how the sequel will be different from the recent comic book, saying:
"I think the book is very different in terms of the structure. Like you pointed out, the book hops around between time periods, but that’s just so we could really fill in a little bit of backstory about how far back things go. The next film will be closer to the first film in terms of its structure and setting."
Trick ‘r Treat 2 does not have a release date yet, but it's in development, and I imagine it will be released in the next year or so during the Halloween season. Dougherty has been working on his next holiday horror film, Krampus. Hopefully when he's done promoting that, he'll jump into production on Trick 'r Treat 2.