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‘Hatchet 2’ Teaser Poster, Sequel Update!
This morning B-D reader ‘Kevin F. sent us an e-mail with a link to a supposed teaser poster for Hatchet 2, which has been on Anchor Bay’s to-do list for quite some time. This afternoon we got in touch with Director Adam Green who comments on the one sheet, while also updating us on the status of Victor Crowley’s big return.
We checked in with HATCHET director Adam Green who commented on the poster that was sent to us by B-D reader ‘Kevin F.’ and also updates on on the status of HATCHET 2.
“The teaser poster is legit, but is something we’ve had on our ArieScope site and MySpace pages for a month or more now,” Green tells us. “HATCHET is Anchor Bay’s highest selling original title of all time at this point and the sequel is definitely going to happen without a doubt.”
The sequel has been in talks for quite some time now, Green explains what’s going on with it now and also comments on whether or not he’ll return to direct.
“Hopefully it gets made this year if we can schedule it in a way that works for me. The only reason a production date has not been agreed upon is because clearly everyone in the HATCHET camp wants to do it at a time when I can be the one to return at the helm, and as you can see from the multitude of projects I am already doing (GRACE, his script for D.C.’s animated AQUAMAN film, FROZEN, GOD ONLY KNOWS, and a TV pilot he’s creating for Nickelodeon with Jack Black’s company Electric Dynamite), it’s going to take some very careful planning and scheduling to find a time where I am available to make the film.”
“Contractually, I can’t commit to HATCHET 2 right at this moment and it is all because of scheduling, but ArieScope Pictures (his company) and Anchor Bay are hard at work figuring it out,” Green continues. “Should we all decide that the film cannot wait any longer – I will pass the torch to a different writer/director for HATCHET 2, but nobody involved wants to even discuss that scenario just yet.”
Green also talks about how HATCHET has become the fan’s film and that he plans on making it the best it can be.
“It was the fans that turned HATCHET into the success that it was – and the fans only. We were a tiny indie film and therefore our theatrical run didn’t get TV commercials, a distributor who pummeled money behind advertising it on 2,000 screens, or any of the stuff that the studio films get. HATCHET became a best seller because of the horror fans who embraced it and the critics worldwide who made so much noise about it. So understand that if I am at the helm, I am not about to just make the sequel in the spare time around my other projects and not give the fans all I can. I am currently in Utah starting pre-production on FROZEN, but we are still in constant discussions with Anchor Bay trying to figure out a plan that works for HATCHET 2. Projects push and post-pone all of the time, so a time could present itself this year much sooner rather than later.” He continues, “It’s just the nature of the business and I am gratefully a filmmaker who happens to have projects moving forward in many different genres. But rest assured that there will be a sequel coming down the road. As horror fans know, when a genre film makes money, the distributor most always makes a sequel. When a film becomes a studio’s most successful title, there is absolutely no question that they will make a sequel.”
Watch for the return of Victor Crowley hopefully sooner than later.
Stephen Graham Jones is one of those horror literature names you know, even if you’re not that into horror literature.
The author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and dozens of other entries in the modern horror canon has built a reputation for two things: Chilling fiction and a jaw-droppingly prolific output, and today we can exclusively reveal the next story he’s unleashing on readers.
On March 9, 2027, Jones and Saga Press will release Ears, a new haunted house horror novella about a down-on-his-luck man who finds an unlucky ally in the ghost of a child in footie pajamas, complete with bunny ears on top.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Mr. Morning Gun, the hapless narrator of this first person novella, is a disgraced history teacher who now is an unhoused person who is largely living within his electric car and the empty homes he looks after for local real estate agencies in a specific way: He flushes the empty houses toilets to keep, primarily, the wax seals on the toilets fresh, and the plumbing flowing. For this he gets a bit of money under table. One day, at “The Messner House” he gets caught by an aggressive realtor having a tryst, and the ghost of the previous owners’ missing child intervenes, killing the couple, and saving the former teacher and he finds himself embroiled into an ever-increasing layer of cover-ups as the girl in the lavender footie pajamas keeps killing folks to keep the house empty, except for him.”
What inspired a story like this? For Jones, it began with something very practical, which quickly morphed into a new expression of horror.
“I was wondering if the chargers for electric cars are universal or not, but didn’t know how to phrase a search to figure that out, so I had to figure it out the only way I know how: with a story—with horror,” Jones told Bloody Disgusting. “With, as it turned out, a haunted house. So, now I know that they probably are universal. And that that leads to… to bad things.”
Bloody Disgusting is pleased to exclusively reveal the haunting cover for Ears, designed by Luisa Dias.
Ears is the latest entry in Jones’ always-busy publishing schedule, which includes a new novel, Off the Reservation, arriving this fall from Saga. Beginning next spring, Saga will also reissue three of Jones’ earlier horror works for a new generation of readers, delivering new editions of Demon Theory, The Last Final Girl, and Growing Up Dead In Texas.
Those reissues don’t have firm release dates yet, but you can expect Ears to arrive on March 9, 2027.
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