Paramount gives horror fans something to smile about with a third installment in Parker Finn’s Smile franchise.
On Wednesday, the studio announced David Bruckner (Hellraiser, The night house) will direct the next film, written by Nick Antosca (Truth, Cape Fear), while Finn is busy directing the Paramount film Possession remake.
Despite Finn’s absence after writing and directing the first two films, he developed and presented the framework for the film that completes the trilogy, on which he is a producer with Temple Hill. Jonathan Fass is executive producer.
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In SmileDr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is on the run from a perpetually smiling supernatural entity that haunts its victims before ultimately driving them mad. The 2024 sequel starred Naomi Scott as pop star Skye Riley, who inherits the entity.
The first Smile the film became the highest-grossing original horror of 2022. Smile 2 pushed the franchise’s worldwide gross to over $350 million.
Variety was the first to break the news of Bruckner’s involvement.
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