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After a decade or so of being stuck in development hell, a film sequel to 2014’s vampire mockumentary “What We Do in the Shadows” appears to finally be moving.
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi created and starred in the original film and Clement appeared at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week to promote the New Zealand stop-motion film “Kiri and Lou Go Raaa!”.
Speaking with Collider at the event, Clement says the long-awaited sequel “We’re Wolves,” which would focus on the rival group of werewolves led by Rhys Darby’s Anton, appears to have made some progress:
“We’re writing it, actually. We started writing. For a long time, we were just talking about it. Now, we’ve started it. Very recently… When we get together, we do some work on it.”
“What We Do in the Shadows” of course became a highly successful FX series which wrapped its sixth season in 2024. The original film was almost entirely improvised, whereas the TV series was mostly scripted with the odd bit of improv. With “We’re Wolves,” they haven’t made up their mind yet:
“The film was super low budget. It was less than $1 million, and just a month of messing around, and then saying, ‘Can we improvise a whole movie with special effects and people flying? Can we do it?’ It was like a challenge. Now we have to decide, ‘Are we going to script this one or are we going to do improv like the first one, or scripted like the show?’ It’s quite good to have the control of the shot. It’s really fun just making it up on the fly.”
As for when the script will be completed, Clement says: “At the pace we’re going, 2027, for sure. It helps to be in the same country, for Taika and I to be in the same country.”
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