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‘Impractical Jokers’ Duo to Write ‘Stream’ Sequel ‘ST2EAM’
Although Brain “Q” Quinn is known for comedy thanks to the massive success of “Impractical Jokers,” he’s also a noted horror fan, even appearing in Victor Crowley and Screamboat.
Now he’s teaming with “Impractical Jokers” producer/writer Joe Imburgio to pen ST2EAM, the sequel to Michael Leavy‘s star-studded slasher Stream.
“Me and Joe Imburgio, who is one of the writers on ‘[Impractical] Jokers’ and a very close friend of mine, we wrote the script for Scream 2,” Quinn revealed to Chris Jericho on the Talk Is Jericho podcast. “I’m so excited.”
Quinn explains that he and Imburgio were kicking around ideas with Leavy over drinks after the Stream premiere, which prompted the filmmaker to offer them the opportunity to take a crack at the script.
“We just handed it in last week,” Quinn adds, noting that the script includes a part written for Jericho.
Leavy commented on the news on Facebook: “Q and Joe joining the Stream team is a perfect match for where we want to take this franchise, they get it. From day one, they completely understood the tone. They’re massive horror fans and cut from the same cloth as us.”
He continues, “Their success in comedy translates perfectly to horror, it’s truly a secret weapon. Scares, like jokes, are all about beats, they live and die by timing — and they know how to land both. They know what works. We truly feel this film will thrill our fans, both old and new. So buckle up, ST2EAM is going to be a fun ride!”
Leavy will return to the director’s chair for the sequel, along with Terrifier star David Howard Thornton as the deadly Player 2, producer Jason Leavy, and producer/director of photography Steven Della Salla.
In Stream, a family must fight for their lives as their weekend getaway truly turns into a vacation to die for when they encounter four deranged murderers competing in a twisted game.
ST2EAM will further tug on the thread that was revealed in first film, unraveling the dark web surrounding a twisted game of life and death.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster revealing at an event that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
That’s putting it mildly, eh?!
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