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‘Mama 2’? Andy & Barbara Muschietti Aren’t Ruling Out a Future Sequel to 2013 Movie
It was back in 2013 that sibling duo Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti arrived on the horror scene with the Guillermo del Toro-produced Mama, which of course paved the way for the Muschiettis to revive Stephen King’s iconic IT property with two big screen movies and a prequel television series that is wrapping up its first season this Sunday night on HBO Max.
But while a sequel to Mama was announced the very same year the movie was released, the property never did end up launching a franchise. Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kölsch (Starry Eyes, Pet Sematary) had signed on to rewrite and direct Mama 2 in 2016, but that project never got off the ground. Is it still possible we’ll see Mama back on screen someday?
Both Andy and Barbara Muschietti took part in a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything chat this week to promote the Season One finale of “IT: Welcome to Derry” this Sunday night (December 14), and Barbara fielded a question about the potential future of the Mama property.
“No one in the Muschietti universe ever really dies,” Barbara Muschietti teased during the Reddit AMA conversation. “We hold Mama very close to our hearts, so who knows?”
Are you still hungry for Mama 2? Comment below and sound off.
In 2013 horror movie Mama starring Jessica Chastain, “Two little girls disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When the sisters are found alive in a decrepit cabin, their uncle and his girlfriend take them in. As they try to introduce the children to a normal life, strange and terrifying events begin to unfold … and they begin to wonder if the traumatized girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.”
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‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Is No Fan of Generative AI: “Defeats the Purpose Entirely for Me”
There has been a lot of talk recently about filmmakers embracing generative AI as part of the filmmaking process, from Darren Aronofsky to Martin Scorsese. But what about filmmakers that are against the use of Gen AI for creative pursuits? You can count 20-year-old Backrooms director Kane Parsons among that group, which should give you some hope for the future.
In a new chat with The Australian, the self-taught young filmmaker makes it crystal clear that he won’t be using generative AI in any of his upcoming filmmaking projects.
“I think I’m in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” Parsons tells the outlet. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would. Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“What interests me more is interrogating it artistically,” Parsons notes. “We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.”
He explains, “I’m interested in using that iconography in art – not using AI to make the art itself, but examining what it represents. I definitely want to explore it further in future projects.”
Kane Parsons also notes during the interview with The Australian, “… there’s so much at stake and so many genuinely harmful consequences already happening.”
Backrooms marks young prodigy Kane Parsons’ feature directorial debut, and it’s based on his own series of YouTube videos that were brought to life using Blender, the open-source 3D computer graphics software suite. So it’s no surprise that Parsons, who has hand-made his filmmaking career up to this point, isn’t buying into the hoopla around Generative AI.
His debut feature is the #1 movie in the world, so perhaps he’s onto something.
What’s next from Kane Parsons, you ask? Stay tuned…
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