TRICK 'R TREAT Director on Why The Sequel is Taking So Long - "Good Things Take Time"
Hopefully, one day, director Michael Dougherty will finally get to make his sequel to the classic Halloween horror movie Trick ‘r Treat. He’s been developing this project for years and it’s been so frustrating for fans that it still hasn’t been produced! But, Dougherty isn't really rushing to make it. He’s been taking his time to make sure to get the film just right because he wants it to meet the expectations of fans. During an in-person screening of the original movie, per Collider, he explained:
"I love all of our favorite horror franchise characters as much as any of us, but not all of them are great. And I know we've grown to love even the lesser chapters of our favorite horror series. There's always a cheese value to them, but if I'm gonna do a sequel, I want it to be as good if not better than the original, and good things take time. The last thing I would want is to see 'Trick 'r Treat Part 9: Sam Goes to Space,' you know? Although that does have potential, I will say."
The director previously revealed that he did have a “really great” script in place, something that he’s very happy with. So, it seems like the project is in a place that’s ready to go. He said:
"I will say this, because we said it last year at the Beyond Fest screening, the sequel is in active development with Legendary. I'll go so far as to say that we have several drafts of a script.
"I brought back the same storyboard artist I mentioned before, Simeon Wilkins, so we have a stack of storyboards and a good fat stack of concept art done by Breehn Burns as well. So it's inching along."
Dougherty then went on to talk about what the next steps are to finally make this sequel happen, saying:
"I'm hoping to talk to Legendary. They've been wonderful, like great collaborators. But so much of it is timing, and as you know, we just got out of a strike, so the next step, fingers crossed, would be looking at budget, of course, schedule, and all the rest ... But we have a really, really great script for a sequel. And I brought in my co-writer from Krampus to do it with me. So Zach Shields and Todd Casey who do Krampus with me also helped me write Trick 'r Treat Part 2."
Fingers crossed that within the next year or two, the Trick ‘r Treat sequel actually goes into production!