“Obsession” filmmaker Curry Barker is riding high after the box office success of his original indie that was scooped up by studio suitors and ended up making a killer profit in the process, given the film was only made for $750,000, and the global box office tally is already up to $287 million. There has already been early chatter of where the universe could be going in spin-offs or even with a follow-up like “Obsession 2,” although those talks haven’t officially started as Barker is busy with his next film, “Anything But Ghosts,” and has been enlisted by A24 to make a “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” reboot.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about a range of various topics, Barker was able to briefly tease an “Obsession 2” idea and was quick to declare that Gen-Z is sort of over the endless sequel/IP offerings from studios, as they’re mostly just craving good movies, not just recognizable titles.
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“I don’t want to go straight into ‘Obsession 2,’ I have such a cool idea for it that I won’t say. I’m not saying it has to be five, six years from now. But I think people would be just as excited for it if it came a little down the road. It’s a whirlwind, and I’m trying to figure it out.”
“I wish they understood that we’re tired of slop. We want good movies back. People are still hungry for movies that are original without some big IP, as long as the story is good,” Barker said of his generation’s current stance on studio offerings and the state of theatrical.
When asked if Focus Features would be pursuing an awards campaign for “Obsession,” he responded with, “There’s going to be an awards campaign. I’m not sure exactly what that entails. I’m not trying to get my hopes up about it and stay focused on what I’m doing next.”
He also reiterated that he wants to stick closely to the original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” with his horror reboot, “The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original. I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: ‘What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?’ I want to capture the rawness and the groundedness of the original.”
In the meantime, Focus/Blumhouse are reuniting with Barker on “Anything But Ghosts,” which features Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard in key parts alongside Barker and his longtime collaborator Cooper Tomlinson. The undated pic that is in the post-production stage is said to involve scammy ghost hunters and has a slightly more comedic edge to it in comparison to “Obsession,” and we’re sure that audiences cannot wait to start getting glimpses from that one as soon as humanly possible.
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