Sam Raimi offered an update on the highly anticipated sequel to ‘Crawl’, assuring audiences that it’s still something he has hope for.
Alexandre Aja‘s alligators in a house film, Crawl, wowed audiences back in 2019. It racked up over $90 million worldwide, far exceeding the reported budget of just over $13 million. A sequel taking place in a partially submerged New York City has been in the works for a while now, with Aja attached to direct. There hasn’t been much of an update recently on the seemingly stalled project, though…until now.
While speaking with The Wrap about his glorious return to feature horror, Send Help, Sam Raimi (a producer on Crawl) dipped into the sewers of Crawl 2.
Said Raimi, “We’ve been trying to get a go from the studio, and they changed hands, Paramount Pictures did, and now the new group that’s come in I’ve worked with before, the ladies and gentlemen that are great at development, and they’re interested in Crawl 2. That’s all I could really say right now, is now I’ve got a new hope to make it.”
Added the filmmaker, “It’s a little bit, I think, embarrassing to make an alligator in the basement picture. I don’t know if that’s what their lofty ambitions were but I think there’s a crowd that loves those kinds of films, if they’re well-made and honestly trying to make this suspenseful and scary and get to know the characters, if they’re really trying to do that, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Yes, it’s a B movie but it’s a blast. I really like that kind of picture.”
So do we, Sam!
Writers Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan (the scribes behind Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) had been attached to write the sequel.
Stay tuned to Dread for more details as we learn them. And don’t miss Sam Raimi’s Send Help (read our review), now playing in theaters.
