Summary
- Director Brian Duffield discusses the possibility of a sequel to his small-scale sci-fi movie No One Will Save You.
- Duffield jokes about doing a sequel every seven years, but reveals he is not a big fan of sequels.
- If enough people watch the movie on Hulu and there is demand for a sequel, Duffield is open to discussing it, but there is no franchise plan in place yet.
No One Will Save You director Brian Duffield has discussed the possibility of a sequel. The small-scale sci-fi movie, which was also written by Duffield, follows Brynn (Katilyn Dever), a grief-stricken young woman in an isolated home that turns out to be at the center of an invasion of murderous aliens. The movie premiered on Hulu on September 22.
Slash Film recently sat down with Duffield for an interview. During their conversation, he was asked if there could be a sequel following the No One Will Save You ending. While he joked about doing a new movie every seven years like the Before Sunrise trilogy, he revealed that he is “not the biggest sequel guy,” but if “everyone’s begging for it, we’ll talk.” Read his full quote below:
I am not the biggest sequel guy. I joked with Kaitlyn, maybe it’s every seven years, we’ll do our “Before Sunset” and we’ll save you. I could do a sequel. I have no plans to do a sequel. If enough people watched it on Hulu and everyone’s begging for it, we’ll talk. There’s not a franchise super plan in my head yet. It would take a lot of work then I’d be so stressed out that I have to come up with something.
Could No One Will Save You 2 Happen?
So far, there isn’t a huge precedent set for the possibility of a sequel. For one thing, despite his interest in continuing to work with No One Will Save You star Kaitlyn Dever, Duffield is right that he isn’t a sequel guy. While he has only directed one other movie (the dark teen comedy Spontaneous), of the seven screenplays he’s written, only two have received sequels.
His movie The Babysitter was followed by The Babysitter: Killer Queen, though Duffield didn’t write it. The same was the case for his screenplay for The Divergent Series: Insurgent, though that movie was itself a sequel to Divergent. While that fact doesn’t work in favor of a No One Will Save You sequel, neither does Hulu’s history with successful genre movies.
Since Hulu began releasing original movies in 2019, only one – the comedy Vacation Friends – has received a sequel in all that time. This is true in spite of the fact that the streamer had two franchise horror hits in 2022 with Hellraiser and Prey. Neither of those movies has had a sequel confirmed, but perhaps the fact that the No One Will Save You aliens are not already licensed IP characters (and are thus less expensive) will encourage Hulu to greenlight a sequel.
Source: Slash Film
