{"id":183873,"date":"2025-08-29T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183873\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:20:12","slug":"elijah-wood-says-ready-or-not-2-picks-up-immediately-after-the-original-deepens-the-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183873\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Wood Says &#8216;Ready or Not 2&#8217; Picks Up Immediately After the Original, Deepens the Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While chatting about <strong>The Toxic Avenger<\/strong>, <strong>Elijah Wood<\/strong> spoke to Bloody Disgusting about his next horror role in <strong>Ready or Not 2: Here I Come<\/strong>, which will expand the mythology hinted at in the 2019 original.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big fan of Radio Silence. I love their films. I love the original. I think Ready or Not is a total blast,\u201d Wood tells me. \u201cI love <strong>Samara [Weaving]<\/strong> in that film. I love the cast of that movie and the kind of nugget of the mythology that you get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>What I love about this sequel is that it really deepens that mythology<\/strong>, so I\u2019m stoked for people to see it.\u201d Wood teases, \u201c<strong>It\u2019s a movie that takes place almost immediately after the first one ends and enriches everything you love about the original film<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is due out on April 10, 2026 via Searchlight Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Silence\u2019s <strong>Matt Bettinelli-Olpin <\/strong>and<strong> Tyler Gillett<\/strong> are back at the helm along with screenwriters <strong>Guy Busick <\/strong>and<strong> R. Christopher Murphy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Samara Weaving reprises her role as Grace with <strong>Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand, David Cronenberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar<\/strong>, and Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Wood can currently be seen in\u00a0The Toxic Avenger \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.toxicavenger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in theaters today<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In writer-director <strong>Macon Blai<\/strong>r\u2019s fresh reimagining of Troma\u2019s 1984 cult classic, a catastrophic accident transforms a downtrodden janitor into a mutant vigilante.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bdisgusting\/video\/7543738993981082911\" data-video-id=\"7543738993981082911\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"><p>\n <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@bdisgusting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bdisgusting?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@bdisgusting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Elijah Wood talks Ready or Not 2: Here I Come <a title=\"elijahwood\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/elijahwood?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#elijahwood<\/a> <a title=\"readyornot\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/readyornot?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#readyornot<\/a> <a title=\"samaraweaving\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/samaraweaving?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#samaraweaving<\/a> <a title=\"radiosilence\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/radiosilence?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#radiosilence<\/a> <a title=\"horror\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/horror?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#horror<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - 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