A ‘Spring Breakers’ Sequel Is In the Works!!

Get your bathing suit ready — a Spring Breakers sequel is on the way. Variety reports that Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain, the new movie from filmmaker Matthew Bright (Freeway), will follow in the footsteps of the original, even boasting a star-studded cast that will take over the next chapter of the story where Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and James Franco left off with director Harmony Korine more than a decade ago. This time around, the action will play out between a primary ensemble that includes Bella Thorne (Shake It Up!), Grace Van Dien (Stranger Things), Ariel Martin (Zombies 2), and True Whitaker (Godfather of Harlem).

In typical Spring Breakers fashion, the movie will follow the quartet of girls who strike out for the time of their lives during spring break. Billed as “a bold new ride for Gen Z,” the group will find plenty of trouble along the way with the road trip adventure flick quickly moving into crime thriller territory. The official synopsis teases a bumpy road ahead for the friends, reading, “When their trip explodes out of control, they’re forced to outrun the chaos they’ve created.”

The title will be shopped around at Cannes courtesy of Capstone Global and Signature Entertainment’s joint company, Capture. A handful of those behind the original feature are set to tag along for the next wild ride, with Muse Production’s Chris Hanley (American Psycho) and Jordan Gertner (Bully) on-board to produce. In a joint statement celebrating the announcement, Hanley and Gertner said,

“We’re thrilled to be working with Christian and Capture on Spring Breakers — Salvation Mountain and excited to keep exploring bold, new, disruptive stories around that wild, fever-dream of youth. The desire for Spring Break to go on forever is something we’ve never let go of.”

The Legacy of ‘Spring Breakers’

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The original film followed four young women (Gomez, Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine), who travel to St. Petersburg, Florida for spring break. It’s there that they meet a local drug dealer (Franco) who pulls them into the city’s criminal underbelly, turning their brief vacation on its head. On a $5 million budget, Spring Breakers amassed a whopping $30 million at the global box office and quickly became a cult classic despite its divisive Rotten Tomatoes critics’ approval rating of 67% and much lower fan rating of 38%. A few years after Korine’s fast-paced crime thriller arrived in cinemas, Jonas Åkerlund and Irvine Welsh were tapped to pen a sequel surrounding Christian extremists titled Spring Breakers: The Second Coming. After changing lanes to a digital series, the project eventually fell apart altogether.