‘Thanksgiving 2’: Eli Roth Announces Sequel is in the Works!!

The year has come and gone, and families are coming together to share meals, gift-giving and quality time with one another – with a turkey in the oven. For this year’s Thanksgiving, director Eli Roth had – after quite a long time preparing – served up the hit horror Thanksgiving. While still sarvour the taste of this new iconic slasher, Sony’s TriStar Pictures and director Roth have announced that John Carver will be coming back and he will murder again.

The news of the sequel was shared on Instagram by Roth on Thursday, with the director noting that work on the script was on the way. Roth teases that the sequel will be written by himself and childhood friend, Jeff Rendell. The pair had penned the script for Thanksgiving, and according to the director, work on the sequel will commence after taking a year off. “BEEAKING NEWS! John Carver will kill again!” the director captioned the sequel annoucement video. “Thank you everyone who supported ORIGINAL HORROR in theaters!!! Go see it now on the big screen while it’s in cinemas, sequel set for release in 2025! Taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!”

Roth‘s Thanksgiving had debuted earlier this month to $10 million in North America and has gone on to gross $30 million globally to date. While those aren’t exactly blockbuster numbers, the film cost $15 million to produce. With a fresh Rotten Tomatoes certification of 83%, Thanksgiving has gone on to become Roth’s highest-rated film ever. This, perhaps, justifies Sony’s TriStar Pictures decision to return to the vicious deeds of John Carver on the streets of Plymouth, Mass. once again.

Carver Isn’t the Villian of ‘Thanksgiving’

While the slasher might have seen Carver go on a bloody spree, Roth has made the argument, in an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, that capitalism is the actual villain of the piece. Roth explains, “So, while you have the Rick Hoffman character kind of sitting in his mansion while they’re listening to violin music, drinking their wine, everyone else is fighting at the gates, scrambling over a waffle iron. So I think that it’s more just a commentary on this kind of sick culture that we have of a very few at the top having so much and the masses having so little and being forced into these gladiator games, but all of that sort of corrupting the holiday. People can’t even sit and have dinner together anymore.”

The idea of Thanksgiving was birthed by a fake trailer in Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse, released in 2007. This first installment stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, with Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon and Tim Dillon. The story centers on a mysterious, axe-wielding killer who wrecks havoc on a small town after a Black Friday riot ends tragically. Roth‘s Thanksgiving sequel will release theatrically worldwide in 2025.