Heretic directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have opened up about their ideas for a potential sequel to A24‘s newest psychological horror movie. This comes after the Hugh Grant-led movie just made its theatrical release less than a week ago. So far, the film has already earned a Certified Fresh rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What to expect from the Heretic directors’ potential spiritual sequel?
During a recent interview, Beck confirmed that he and Woods already have discussed ideas for a spiritual sequel to Heretic, such as delving into religion and cults.
“There are some things on deck that we’ve talked out specifically that feel like spiritual sequels,” Beck said (via Variety). “They delve into religion, cults or other hot-button items that we want to see on the screen that go to uncomfortable places. What was exciting about Heretic was we’ve seen many movies that might be religious in nature, but aren’t necessarily providing a foundation of a conversation that you can walk away with. If you want to keep engaging with it by having conversations about the ideas with your friends, family or loved ones, you can have that there. We find ourselves in such a divisive, polarizing world at times that there’s so much discourse we’re still very captivated by. We want to feed that into a couple of the upcoming projects.”
Heretic was directed by Beck and Woods, who are best known for co-writing 2018’s A Quiet Place movie with John Krasinski. The film also stars Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) as Sister Barnes, Topher Grace (That ’70s Show) as Elder Kennedy, Chloe East (The Fabelmans) as Sister Paxton, and Elle Young as Prophet. It was produced by Woods, Beck, Jeanette Volturno, Stacey Shrer, Julia Glausi, Kai Raka, and Liliane Bedford, with Katie Aquino set as an associate producer.
