Newcomer writer/director Curry Barker is having a bit of a moment with his original horror flick “Obsession” dominating the box office. It surprisingly ended up overtaking Disney’s “The Mandalorian & Grogu” weeks after release at the domestic box office, the current cume being a whopping $230 million globally on a budget of $750,000, signaling the audience’s hunger for projects like “Obsession” and a financial incentive for studios like Blumhouse/Focus Features to bankroll future films from Barker, including “Obsession 2.”
While there have been teases from Barker about expanding the world of the One Wish Willow via different worlds to avoid logic headaches (for hypothetical sequels or spinoffs), a producer has revealed that sequel or spinoff talks haven’t started. James Harris of Tea Shop Productions tells Variety that, despite calls for a follow-up, nothing official is happening behind the scenes, though that could change if Barker becomes available.
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“I’m sure there’ll be an ‘Obsession 2’ conversation sooner rather than later,” said Harris of an “Obsession” sequel. “But let’s see when Curry is even available to make it, because I’m sure he’s having more meetings that he knows what to do with at this stage.”
“I would love to pretend there was some sort of amazing secret to it,” Harris said of discovering the film but not knowing how the audience would react to it. “And look, we all saw potential in the project. But I’d be lying if anyone could foreshadow the phenomena of people seeing the movie six times, or people making memes about it, or people reading into stuff in the movie that honestly I don’t think anybody should be reading into.”
What we do know for sure is that A24 has tasked Barker to help with a new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” film (alongside a series from JT Mollner), and there was a report that the director was getting a $10 million offer for his next original movie, sight-unseen. On deck is his second feature film, the supernatural horror “Anything But Ghosts,” starring Aaron Paul (“Westworld”) and Bryce Dallas Howard (“Black Mirror”), set for release sometime in 2027 by Focus.
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