“Happy Death Day” star Jessica Rothe is happy to relive another day as Tree Gelbman in the franchise’s third installment.
Rothe, who starred in the 2017 film “Happy Death Day” and its 2019 sequel, “Happy Death Day 2U,” recently revealed that writer and director Christopher Landon “has the whole third one figured out” while discussing the future of the “Groundhog Day”-style horror-comedy franchise.
“I think that is the power of zeitgeist. I think the more we ask, and the more we put it into the universe, it will happen,” she told ScreenRant. “Because the truth is, Chris Landon, our brilliant, fearless writer/director, he has the whole third one figured out.”
In “Happy Death Day,” Rothe plays a college student named Tree, who is murdered on her birthday, only to wake up at the beginning of the day. As the nightmarish day keeps repeating itself and ending in her death every time, she has to uncover her killer’s identity in order to stop the cycle. The sequel incorporates sci-fi elements, as Tree finds herself in a parallel universe as a result of her friend’s time-travel experiments.
Rothe added, “I think at this point, it’s just logistics, and all I’ll say to you and the fans is, whether it’s next year or when I’m 65, pulling a Jamie Lee Curtis coming back for ‘Halloween,’ I will be there to finish Tree’s story. So, it’s just a matter of when they get all their ducks in a row.”
Rothe also stated she’d be game for a crossover event amongst all of Landon’s films, saying, “I’m sure he also has his version of the MCU, but the ‘ChrisCU’ with ‘Freaky,’ ‘Happy Death Day,’ ‘We Have a Ghost’ and ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse,’ they all could totally live in the same universe. That’s the crossover that I need right now in my life.”
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