{"id":700959,"date":"2026-01-17T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:12:11","slug":"eli-roth-on-thanksgiving-2-delay-everybody-wants-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700959\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Roth on &#8216;Thanksgiving 2&#8217; Delay: &#8220;Everybody Wants to Do It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanksgiving 2<\/strong> was officially announced just two weeks after the first film opened in 2023, with TriStar aiming to to have it in theaters it in time for the eponymous holiday in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, the sequel has still yet to enter production due to scheduling issues \u2014 including <strong>Addison Rae<\/strong>\u2018s touring commitments and <strong>Milo Manheim<\/strong> having just signed to star in the live-action remake of Tangled.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, <strong>Eli Roth<\/strong> is confident John Carver will return when the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody wants to do it. I\u2019m gonna have it locked and loaded, and we\u2019ll find a time when we\u2019re all available,\u201d Roth told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/columns\/snoop-dogg-star-in-eli-roth-dont-go-in-that-house-bitch-1236633474\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ll just go back for a few weeks and have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roth will return to direct the sequel from a script he co-wrote with <strong>Jeff Rendell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nell Verlaque<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Rick Hoffman<\/strong> are also expected to reprise their roles alongside Rae and Manheim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re upping the ante but we are not going to do it with more money,\u201d Roth previously <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3847131\/eli-roth-provides-thanksgiving-2-update-filming-begins-in-early-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teased<\/a> of the sequel. \u201cI want it to be a challenge to pull off. Because if I\u2019ve come up with the stuff that I think will make the best kills, then I\u2019m going to do it like I\u2019m never going to make another movie again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3788143\/thanksgiving-review-holiday-horror\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thanksgiving<\/a>, after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts \u2013 the birthplace of the holiday. What begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister plan.<\/p>\n<p>While we wait for Thanksgiving 2, Roth is staying busy with his Horror Section Studios projects, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3914617\/eli-roths-ice-cream-man-reveals-cast-first-image-of-ari-millen-in-title-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Cream Man<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3929758\/snoop-dogg-to-star-in-eli-roths-dont-go-in-that-house-bitch-filming-this-summer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Go in That House, Bitch!<\/a> He\u2019s also developing a <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/tv\/3890859\/eli-roths-hostel-tv-series-in-the-works-at-peacock-with-paul-giamatti-starring\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHostel\u201d TV series<\/a> for Peacock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Thanksgiving_Friday13th_Poster_3a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2 was officially announced just two weeks after the first film opened in 2023, with TriStar aiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[51948,77,3943,4413,51950,16,15],"class_list":["post-700959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eli-roth","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-2","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115907549311069773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}