Paranormal Activity has created one hell of a franchise, featuring six films already. Now, the latest installment, a remake from director William Eubank (The Signal, Underwater), is on its way and according to Jason Blum of Blumhouse, the movie is already made and set to premiere on Paramount Plus in 2022.
The movie’s done,” Blum told Collider. “Yeah, we did it.”
Originally the franchise was intended to end in 2015, but Paramount had other ideas.
Paramount wanted to continue Paranormal Activity, I probably would have left it alone,” Blum states. “So they wanted to continue it, but I thought if they were gonna continue it, you gotta – it was tired, there was no way to continue the road that we’d been down.
So I really encouraged all the creative people involved to think of something new. A lot of people who are going to go see the new Paranormal Activity were 3 years old when the first Paranormal Activity came out, so they don’t even know from those older movies. I thought if you were going to re-do it, you better really re-do it, not try and expand what we did all those years ago.” He continued.
Christopher Landon, who penned Paranormal Activity 2 through 5 as well as directed Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Happy Death Day and Freaky for Blumhouse is behind the remake.
Described as “an unexpected retooling” of the franchise, we assume the trend of the franchise’s found-footage style will continue.
Emily Bader, Dan Lippert, Roland Buck III, and Henry Ayres-Brown star.
The remake’s release date has been set for March 4, 2022, but seeing that it has already been made, we’re guessing that date will be moved up by quite a bit, maybe even as early as this October. But we’ll let you know.
