Or because it's so gratifying, especially when it feels a bit after the fact, and you're so excited that you were right, that your story was good and you do want to do more of it." "I think it's very easy, especially in that situation, to want to double down on that success. And then later, we were gradually convinced was a success," he said.
"Because I think that's the easiest thing for filmmakers to do, especially when you have a film like The Guest, which initially we felt like was a failure. He continued, referring to the first movie initially being called a failure before garnering a passionate cult following which has led to calls for a sequel. And then, we'll see if it leads into anything more concrete, but we're not going to exploit any of our fans and we're not going to ruin anything." Though Barrett does not reveal exactly what this sequel project that's concretely happening is exactly, he does offer some insight into what audiences can expect saying, "There's definitely going to be one thing that tells you what the further adventures of Dan Stevens' character and Maika Monroe's character and Brendan Meyer's character, what those could have been. However, at this point, enough people have asked us about it, that of course, inevitably Adam and I have had enough conversations about what we would hypothetically do, that we've now developed a bunch of ideas that we've become very attached to, because we think they're actually good." The Guest was just never meant to have a sequel like that. "So, we're never going to do just like, The Guest 2.
Regardless of whether Barrett opts for this specific idea or not, don't expect The Guest 2 to reignite David's story with the same shoot-outs and explosions as the first time around, as Barrett sounds adamant that the sequel will not follow in the footsteps of The Guest, but will instead walk its own path. While this direction may seem quite startling, even disappointing at first, it could actually be a very interesting, and potentially hilarious way to continue the story of Steven's amoral soldier, David Collins. "So I would likely do something perverse, and just have Dan's character be the successful owner of a local hardware store and the entire story is just about him dealing with a difficult supplier, but in a totally legal and healthy way, because he's totally grown as a person." The more time David spends with the family, the more he charms them and their community, but after a string of mysterious deaths, hints about his past begin to emerge and tease a horrible secret he's been keeping from everyone.īarrett has now even hinted at his thinking behind The Guest 2, revealing that it would reunite audiences with Dan Stevens' title character, but in a way that would show growth rather than simply aping the same ideas from the first movie. The family welcomes Stevens' "David" into their home as they adapt to life without their son. The Guest finds Dan Stevens as a mysterious man who comes to visit the grieving family of an old army buddy. I think that could only disappoint people at this juncture, because people have to remember that the same weird, quasi-original artistic sensibility that caused me to write The Guest in the first place would continue to guide me with a Guest sequel." And I think that's the thing that no one actually wants us to do, because I think if we actually made a feature film version of The Guest 2, or realistically, the graphic novel version would just be a cheaper version of trying to achieve kind of the same thing narratively. And it is concretely happening, but it is not a feature film or a comic book, because I think that's what people would expect us to do. "I can give you a very concrete answer to that question, which is, we are doing something related to The Guest. While teasing a few vague details about the project, Barrett assured fans that it will come from the same creatively unique place as The Guest, and hence will be very different to what they have in mind. The Guest writer Simon Barrett has confirmed that a sequel is happening, but it will not be what fans of the first movie expect.