Jennifer’s Body is ready for another batch of boy blood.
So said writer Diablo Cody herself, who feels “unleashed” while crafting a sequel to her then-misunderstood and now-celebrated horror comedy starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried.
While it’s still firmly theoretical, the 2009 cult favorite’s director is doing her part in manifesting a follow-up.
“I can say that the rumors are true. That’s something we’re working on,” The Terror: Devil in Silver producer Karyn Kusama revealed in an exclusive chat with SYFY Wire. “I’m really, really hopeful that it happens, because it’s actually going to be reinvented in a really, really cool and interesting way. I’m excited.”
For now, it’s unclear whether this revamp will pick back up with Seyfried’s Needy, who last we learned had used her newfound powers to seek bloody revenge on the indie band (including its frontman played by Adam Brody) who caused Jennifer’s cannibal condition.
Meanwhile, Kusama is booked and busy on the small-screen front, producing the highly-anticipated third installment of The Terror franchise, on top of directing its first two episodes.
Based on the 2012 Victor LaValle novel of the same name, Devil in Silver fits neatly into the show’s “trapped together” format, with season one having focused on a stranded 19th century British naval ship, followed by more historical horrors inside a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
“I think a lot of it just has to do with character,” Kusama said of The Terror’s trademarks, “and having central characters that you feel have a very real problem at hand.”
And Kusama is no stranger to anxiety-inducing centralized locations. After all, she helmed 2015’s The Invitation—only now she’s traded upscale Hollywood Hills homes and suicide cults for a seemingly demon-infested New York City mental institution.
Devil in Silver follows Pepper (Dan Stevens) and his accidental check-in at New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, where patients and doctors alike will slowly succumb to evil forces across the six-episode season.
“I hope that’s something I learned from The Invitation,” Kusama added, “was that you try to set up audience relationships with all those characters, in which the audience can keep asking pleasurable questions and—over sort of like an IV drip—get enough information to hang on.”
The Terror: Devil in Silver—starring Stevens, Judith Light, CCH Pounder and Aasif Mandvi—will premiere May 7 on AMC+ and Shudder, with new episodes rolling out weekly. The original series will also air on AMC later this year.
