By Catching many people’s attention with “Haute Tension” in 2003, filmmaker Alexandre Aja has subsequently delivered numerous genre films with several of them well received including “The Hills Have Eyes” remake, “Piranha 3D,” “Horns” and “Oxygen”.
But his biggest critical and commercial success to date remains 2019’s “Crawl,” the $15 million budgeted alligator-centric horror film grossed $91 million as well as appearing on several top films of the year list – including famously filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
Out promoting his new film “Never Let Go,” Aja tells THR that it “was the nicest thing ever” that Tarantino saw and really loved the film. He says:
“Sometimes, you do movies and you never know [how they’re going to be received]. But when you find an audience that also includes the critics and your peers that you admire the most, that’s why you keep trying to tell stories.”
The film’s success was good enough that a sequel is on the way with Aja and producers Sam Raimi and Craig Flores returning. Though expected to shoot in Europe, the film will be a New York-set story with a new cast.
Offering an update on where the film stands right now, Aja says he hopes to film it next year:
“I would say that I never really stopped working on Crawl. (Laughs.) After we were done, I kept thinking about all the other great setups that we could create, and it was really an exciting movie to make.
So I wanted to really be involved in doing a sequel, and after a few troubled years with Covid and everything, I feel like we are now in a position that, hopefully next year, it might happen. So I’m excited. I’m ready to go. I’ve been lining up so many scenes and stuff, so it’s there. We just have to do it now and get back in the water.”
Paramount officially greenlit the sequel last month with Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan set to pen the follow-up.
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