Will There Be a Smile 3? Here is What the Director Has Teased

Flip that frown the other way up: There is likely to be extra Smile motion pictures on the best way.

Author-director Parker Finn already has his gears spinning on what might occur in potential sequels inside the horror franchise.

The second movie, starring Naomi Scott as a tormented pop star coping with the grinning demons, debuted in theaters Oct. 18, two years after the unique, led by Sosie Bacon, turned a shock blockbuster in 2022.

“There’s so many thrilling roads that Smile might go down,” Finn instructed The Hollywood Reporter on the sequel’s Los Angeles premiere Oct. 14.

“We’ll must see how audiences react to Smile 2, however I feel that’s what’s nice about Smile is there’s a possibility to inform all totally different sorts of numerous tales and form of place ourselves in numerous worlds that Smile then is available in and invades,” he added.

The director additionally instructed GamesRadar+ that “if we’re fortunate with how audiences can join with and embrace” Smile 2 on the field workplace, “I feel the sky is the restrict” with further sequels.

Finn appears to have already lined up his subsequent challenge exterior of the Smile universe: A number of retailers reported again in June that he was in early levels of writing and directing a remake of the 1981 horror movie Possession, with Robert Pattinson additionally hooked up as a producer.

Extra of the Smile franchise’s lore is revealed and expanded within the bonkers second movie, which briefly carries over star Kyle Gallner’s character from the primary movie to propel the story additional.

As Finn instructed Den of Geek journal, they needed to “guarantee that we had been coming again to do a sequel that felt actually worthwhile,” one thing “distinctive and actually its personal factor.”

“Within the first film, there’s quite a lot of thriller, and the viewers is studying about it because the character is. Within the second film, they’re coming in with extra data than the place the character is,” he defined. “With the viewers doubtlessly being forward of the character, I needed to lean into that and see if I might use that towards the viewers and invite them in.”

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He continued, “I really like this concept of partway via the film if the viewers may begin to really feel like, ‘Oh, wow, wait. Am I the evil? Am I doing this to the character?’ ”

In September, Finn instructed SFX journal he envisions every installment getting progressively wilder than the final.

“There are some concepts that I feel are very thrilling. I feel it’s actually enjoyable to think about a lineage of Smile motion pictures the place each turns into extra off the rails than the earlier one,” he mentioned. “What’s actually fascinating about Smile is that yow will discover your self in numerous tales, totally different characters, totally different worlds.”

Smile 2 is in theaters now.