Will There Be aSmile 3? Here's What the Director of the Hit Horror Franchise Has Teased: 'Sky's the Limit'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Turn that frown upside down: There might be moreSmilemovies on the way.

Writer-director Parker Finn already has his gears spinning on what could happen in potential sequels within the horror franchise.

“There’s so many exciting roads thatSmilecould go down,” Finn toldThe Hollywood Reporterat the sequel’s Los Angeles premiere Oct. 14.

“We’ll have to see how audiences react toSmile 2, but I think that’s what’s great aboutSmileis there’s an opportunity to tell all different kinds of diverse stories and sort of place ourselves in different worlds thatSmilethen comes in and invades,” he added.

Finn seems to have already lined up his next project outside of theSmileuniverse:Multiple outlets reportedback in June that he was in early stages of writing and directing a remake of the 1981 horror filmPossession, withRobert Pattinsonalso attached as a producer.

More of theSmilefranchise’s lore is revealed and expanded in the bonkers second film, which briefly carries over star Kyle Gallner’s character from the first film to propel the story further.

As Finn toldDen of Geekmagazine, they wanted to “make sure that we were coming back to do a sequel that felt really worthwhile,” something “unique and really its own thing.”

“In the first movie, there’s a lot of mystery, and the audience is learning about it as the character is. In the second movie, they’re coming in with more knowledge than where the character is,” he explained. “With the audience potentially being ahead of the character, I wanted to lean into that and see if I could use that against the audience and invite them in.”

Sosie Bacon in “Smile” (2022).Paramount Pictures/Paramount +

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He continued, “I love this idea of partway through the movie if the audience might start to feel like, ‘Oh, wow, wait. Am I the evil? Am I doing this to the character?’ "

In September, Finn toldSFXmagazinehe envisions each installment getting progressively wilder than the last.

“There are some ideas that I think are very exciting. I think it’s really fun to imagine a lineage ofSmilemovies where each one becomes more off the rails than the previous one,” he said. “What’s really interesting aboutSmileis that you can find yourself in different stories, different characters, different worlds.”

Smile 2is in theaters now.

source: people.com