‘Stream 2’ Will Follow an Entirely New Family, Director Michael Leavy Reveals

Stream 2: Sudden Death is switching things up.

Michael Leavy, producer of the Terrifier franchise and director of Stream, revealed during an appearance on the Freak Files podcast that the upcoming sequel will not follow the Keenan family from the original film, but instead center on an entirely new family.

“Nobody knows this really,” Leavy revealed when asked what else he could tease about the sequel. “It’s gonna follow a different family. So it’s not gonna follow our original Keenan family. It’s gonna follow a different family.”

When asked whether the Keenan children could still make an appearance, Leavy remained coy: “We’ll have to find out. We’ll have to see. Maybe, maybe not.”

The original Stream followed the Keenan family as their hotel getaway became the setting for a sadistic competition between masked killers, with the murders livestreamed for an audience watching and betting from home.

Leavy previously teased that the sequel will move the carnage into a hospital setting, but the new interview gives us the first indication that Stream may be evolving into something closer to an anthology-style franchise, with the deadly game continuing around new victims.

And this time, Leavy says they won’t need to spend nearly as much time explaining what the hell is happening.

“Now that Stream is known and people know what it’s about, we don’t have to kind of slow play it like we did in Stream 1,” Leavy explained. “Now we can kind of jump right in off the rip.”

Stream 2: Sudden Death is written by Impractical Jokers star Brian “Q” Quinn and longtime Impractical Jokers producer Joe Imburgio, who Leavy says delivered a “crazy, bonkers, out-of-this-world script.”

The sequel will bring back David Howard Thornton (Terrifier 1-3) as Player 2, along with , who returns as Lockwood in an expanded role. (, ) is also returning, while original Art the Clown performer is coming out of retirement for a role in the film.