In 2022, filmmaking Brotherduo Danny and Michael Philippou created an immediate horror sensation with “Talk to me“An enemy smart and fun twist on the possession genre that earned $ 91 million all over the world and became a distributor A24s most intriguing horror film. Only a month after it was released, A24 has already announced that a sequel to the movie Was under development from the Aussie film creators.
But instead of going full steam forward by expanding on an emerging horror franchise, the brothers instead return with another new, original horror movie – one who promises to become lurks, goriors, scary and sadder than their debut.
On March 28, the Philippö showed on a preview for their Upcoming second feature “Bring her back“At Neuehouse Hollywood in Los Angeles. The duo, who is still in post-production work on the film, shared two ready-made clips from the film. The first introduced the audience to the role of the film: Sally Hawkins, played a friendly foster mom who-, which Danny introduced her to be a psychopat and sora, billy bar and her. Torn the level of Gore fans can expect from the film, as Phillips character sticks a knife in his mouth, which resulted in so much blood that several audience members gaped and looked away.
After the pictures, the philippi was set for a conversation that was moderated by the A24 producer Sam Hanson. When he talked about writing the movie with co -author Bill Hinzman, Danny said to write on the script at the same time with “Talk to me.” However, the film was greatly influenced by a real tragedy during early elaborate stages, when the brothers’ cousin lost their two -year -old child. The traumatic event ended strongly informed the direction of Hawkin’s character, as Phillipou and Hinzman became interested in the mourning cycle as a horror concept.
“Horror is a fun way to look at dark themes like it, and the idea that she was never okay again after that, it was an inspirational point, and how far she would go to heal herself from it, and the idea of an endless mourning bike is scary for me, and to see raw grief as it is scary,” said Danny. “It happened just while we wrote, so it became part of the screenplay process, and it’s always a way to express these things or look at these things on a funner. Hopefully it’s fun. Probably not.”
Since both “Bring Her Back” and “Talk with me” developed at the same time, both films have similar reference points, especially since both are about the idea of spiritual possession. Danny quoted “The Exorcist” – as he called “the biggest movie ever made” – as a key reference point, while Michael said they used “bring her back” to explore the grief process in an even deeper way than “talk to me.”
“Leaning into” How far would you go to get back someone you love? “The deep desires you are wondering about,” Michael said. “Translate it to the screen, I think it’s something we didn’t really come out with” talk to me “, so this is another iteration of it.”
Michael also said that another tragedy death of a close family friend-under-production informed the emotional main space they were in during filming, which was bleeding into the final project. “The grief was so raw and real and at the moment we had no way to process it properly,” Michael said. “There was no time to sort through these feelings and they pulled out into the script. Scenes that would be scary kind were sad. So it will be part of the process as well, what you feel at that time will get into what you do. So I think it is a cruelty with what was not there in” talk to me. ”
When he spoke to IndieWire after the event, the Philippou brothers discussed why they were approaching Sally Hawkins for the lead roleWhich Danny described as partly inspired by psycho-biddy movies like “What ever happened to Baby Jane?” The two were drawn to her versatility, after seeing her playing drastically different characters in films that stretched out “Eternal Beauty”, “Blue Jasmine” and “Paddington.” “A character actor who changes her personality so much and doesn’t play the same thing over and over again, it was so exciting for me,” Danny said. “And the fact that she had never made a complete, punctual horror movie before either, it was exciting.”
“It was nervous for me, went to a great actor, I was so scared because you hear stories about Egor with great actors,” Michael said. “We really wanted someone who would work with us and be in line with us and go to these places with us and not have walls up about it or be authoritarian in any way. But the first call we have with Sally, she was so amazing, so down to earth. She really broke down the script, and she talked about these little characters that we would never have taken up
Danny Philippou talked about the “talk to me” follower and told IndieWire that he and Hinzman have two scripts for the sequel, both of which follow another character and story. “Part of that is that I can’t decide which is the best way to take,” Philippou said.
However, do not expect him to make that decision soon, when the brothers have packaged the post -production on “Bring Her Back”, Michael Philippou flies to Mexico to work with a documentary, the two on the World of Death Match Wrestling, and Danny estimated that Michael will probably spend the second half of the 202 In the meantime, he will spend his year working with Hinzman on another horror film they have under development, whose condition he holds under the cover. When they are done with the work on that script, Danny said he intends to visit “talk to me 2” and complete a script from a new perspective.
“So I would say 2025” take her back “2026 the documentary, 2027 (the new) horror, and then” talk to me 2, “Michael told indieWire.” Maybe I don’t know. ”
“So when we’re like 50, we’ll talk to me 2 ‘,” Joked Danny.
A24 will release “Bring Her Back” in theaters on Friday 30 May.
