Bryan Bertino’s 2008 home invasion horror The Strangers is being rebooted into a whole new trilogy which is seemingly releasing in 2024.
Lionsgate confirmed the news just before the weekend, and Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin appears to be in the hot seat for the project. Intriguingly, it seems like the entire trilogy is set to release in the same year.
The project is set to be fully unveiled at next month’s New York Comic Con where Harlin and producer Courtney Solomon will be in attendance. A social media post revealed these details about NYCC, and gave us a glimpse of one of the established killers from the original movie.
The Strangers Remake Already Finished?
Last year it was revealed that a remake of The Strangers was on the cards with an entirely different setup to the original. The remake centers on a couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) who drive cross-country to begin a new life in the Pacific Northwest. When their car breaks down in Venus, Oregon, they’re forced to spend the night in a secluded Airbnb, where they are terrorized from dusk till dawn by three masked strangers.
The existence of two further films was not a known factor before, and it will be interesting to see if there’s an interconnected story being told.
The Strangers came out in 2008 and starred Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler as a couple under siege from three masked strangers. The movie gained a lot of attention for its cold bleak take on home invasion. A sequel The Strangers: Prey at Night appeared in 2018 and both movies did reasonably well at the box office on modest budgets.
We’ll no doubt no more when The Strangers Trilogy panel takes place on October 12 at NYCC.
