With Thanksgiving months away, Nell Verlaque is getting ready for a second serving of Eli Roth‘s seasonal slasher.
At last Wednesday’s premiere of Prime Video‘s Overcompensating, the actress told Deadline that she’s “really excited” to get into production on the sequel to 2023’s Thanksgiving, which she hopes to film after completing production on her upcoming MGM+ series American Classic.
“I think we will be filming this year,” said Verlaque on the red carpet at the Hollywood Palladium. “I actually just saw Eli, and we’re talking about some plot points, so I’m really excited for it.”
With the first installment surpassing $46 million worldwide and Certified Fresh at 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, Roth announced a sequel on Instagram a few weeks after the original’s premiere in November 2023.
The director originally announced the Sony followup was “set for release in 2025,” noting that he and writer Jeff Rendell were “taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!”
Director Eli Roth attends Tristar Pictures’ ‘Thanksgiving’ screening on Nov. 14, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
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Based on Roth’s fictitious trailer of the same name that appeared in Grindhouse (2007), Thanksgiving takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where a masked maniac terrorizes the residents one year after a Black Friday riot ended in tragedy.
The film also stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Milo Manheim, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon.