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‘Ma’: Director Tate Taylor Reveals His Idea for a Sequel to the 2019 Film

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Back in 2019, the Octavia Spencer-starring Ma scared up over $60 million at the worldwide box office on a $5 million production budget, with the film’s finale suggesting that the titular villain died in a fiery blaze. Of course, nobody is ever really dead in the world of horror movies, especially when we’re talking about horror movies that turn a pretty sizable profit.

So will we ever be seeing a sequel to Ma? Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, director Tate Taylor reveals that he’d love to make one, and he’s already got some ideas in mind.

“Can you believe how much Ma lives on? Isn’t that just crazy? I don’t think we thought Ma was going to have this afterlife as this cult thing, and I think it’s worth discussing [a sequel],” Taylor explains. “I know Octavia would do it, that’s why I purposely left her death ambiguous!

Taylor continues, “My idea is that she’s moved to another town, and she has open houses in another city and kills people in the open house. I think she’d be a real estate agent in the Pacific Northwest, and just murder white people looking at McMansions. That’s as far as I’ve gotten!”

Spencer played Sue Ann “Ma” Ellington in the 2019 movie, a veterinary technician who befriends a group of teenagers. At first she’s the best friend a teenager could possibly ask for, providing the group with alcohol and a place to party, but they soon realize she has sinister intentions tied to her past. She’s ultimately defeated, and presumably killed in a house fire.

But ya never know. She may still be alive. And she may be back soon…

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

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Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.

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