Daniels say tease for Everything Everywhere All At Once sequel was just a joke
No, the duo isn't making a movie about Evelyn getting radicalized by social media
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Daniels, the directing duo also known as Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert that made the excellent Everything Everywhere All At Once, have taken to Twitter to deny a story going around about a supposed pitch for a sequel to their mind-bending multiverse film. That story, which was written up by IndieWire, originally came from an interview that Daniels did with Edgar Wright for the British Film Institute’s Sight And Sound.
In a somewhat oddly disjointed moment in that interview, Wright notes that “a lot of parents are currently being radicalized by social media” (though it’s not totally clear why he’s bringing that up), to which Daniel Kwan responds that, if they were ever to do a sequel to Everything Everywhere All At Once, “it would be about Evelyn getting radicalized,” and then “Joy would have to go out and save her mom.”
Later on, Daniel Scheinert mentions that he recently realized that there’s no internet in the movie and that nobody ever looks at social media, but “the movie is totally a reaction to that.” He says it’s like a kid growing up with the internet and “struggling to be understood” by a parent who did not.
This weekend, Daniels tweeted that the story of them making an Everything Everywhere sequel about Michelle Yeoh’s character being “radicalized” by the internet is “not true at all.” In fact, they say they “don’t even remember making this joke” and that it “must have been back in March when the idea of a sequel was especially comically far fetched.” Perhaps there was some more context in the original conversation that was cut out, which would explain why the note about parents being radicalized seems to come out of nowhere, and may have made it clearer that Daniels weren’t being serious about that plan.
Either way, Everything Everywhere fans can rest a little easier knowing that the fairly definitive ending of the film is actually going to stand, and we’re not going to see Spider-Man 2099 or Clea show up and kick off another multiverse adventure.
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Well, no thanks to Fox and OANN, we know this isn’t an impossible scenario unfortunately.Fortunately, it sounds like we’re not getting to see it!
if they were ever to do a sequel to Everything Everywhere All At Once, “it would be about Evelyn getting radicalized,” and then “Joy would have to go out and save her mom.”as relatable as eeaao was, so would this imaginary sequel as my parents can not get their eyes off facebook. they’re on facebook consuming everything shitty everywhere all at once and there’s no way to get them out of it…
Have you tried googly eyes?
While I’m sure they could make it work, literally the only thing that could ruin this movie would be a sequel.
But it has to be called Everyone, Everywhen, All At TWOnce.
Everything Everywhere All At Once But More
The Never Ending Story Too
Everything Everywhere All At Twice
2 Everything 2 Everywhere 2 Much
Please, make a sequel. I loved the first. Maybe the second will be awesome, too. If it’s not, fine. I don’t understand these people who let a future movie ruin their enjoyment of a previous one.
Why do I care if someone is bad later if they were nice to me first?
There is no future movie, no one is having their enjoyment of the film ruined, I can’t even tell what you’re talking about.
The best way to follow up something like EEAAO is something that continues its sense of surprise and discovery, not something that continues its narrative.I’m with you on sequels not ruining the original, but I just don’t see how a sequel to this manages to capture what makes it work. It told the story it wanted to tell, tackled the themes it wanted to tackle, why not let the directors give us an equally thrilling and unexpected experience somewhere else? After all, imagine how much worse it would have been if we’d gotten Swiss Army Man 2 instead of EEAAO.
Or, instead of sequel, just make another movie that is different. Everything wrapped up nicely in this movie.
I would love it if everyone could just agree to refuse to call them that
Looking forward to Something Somewhere Sometimes and the follow-up, Nothing Nowhere Never.
I say nay on a sequel…part of the film’s perfection is that it’s a self-contained, singular narrative that did the near impossible by having a satisfying conclusion…