It was announced this past weekend that Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) will return to aquatic horror to direct Under Paris 2 for Netflix, which left many fans wondering if Aja is still attached to direct a sequel to his 2019 alligator movie Crawl.
Last we heard, Alexandre Aja would be returning to direct Crawl 2, with the setting being moved from swampy Florida to a partially-submerged New York City. Chatting with The Wrap this month, producer Sam Raimi provides a status update on the stalled project.
Raimi explains to the outlet, “We’ve been trying to get a go from the studio, and they changed hands, Paramount Pictures did, and now the new group that’s come in I’ve worked with before, the ladies and gentlemen that are great at development, and they’re interested in Crawl 2. That’s all I could really say right now, is now I’ve got a new hope to make it.”
“It’s a little bit, I think, embarrassing to make an alligator in the basement picture,” Raimi adds. “I don’t know if that’s what their lofty ambitions were but I think there’s a crowd that loves those kinds of films, if they’re well-made and honestly trying to make this suspenseful and scary and get to know the characters, if they’re really trying to do that, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Yes, it’s a B movie but it’s a blast. I really like that kind of picture.”
Released in 2019, Alexandre Aja‘s Crawl put Kaya Scodelario up against a category 5 hurricane and a pack of hungry alligators, and the thrilling mix of action and suspense-horror proved to be a hit with audiences at the box office. On a $13 million production budget, Crawl scared up over $91 million worldwide, with sequel talks beginning almost immediately.
Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) had been attached to write the screenplay for the Crawl sequel. Stay tuned for more.
‘Crawl’