Although it’s been seven years since Happy Death Day 2U, Jessica Rothe is always game to relive another day as Tree Gelbman.
The actress, who starred in Happy Death Day (2017) and its 2019 sequel, recently revealed that writer/director Christopher Landon “has the whole third one figured out” as she teased the progress of the third installment in the horror comedy franchise.
“I think that is the power of zeitgeist. I think the more we ask, and the more we put it into the universe, it will happen,” she recently told ScreenRant. “Because the truth is, Chris Landon, our brilliant, fearless writer/director, he has the whole third one figured out.”
Rothe continued, “And I’m sure he also has his version of the MCU, but the ‘ChrisCU’ with Freaky and Happy Death Day, and We Have a Ghost and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, they all could totally live in the same universe. That’s the crossover that I need right now in my life.”
Reiterating that Landon “has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explained, “I think at this point, it’s just logistics, and all I’ll say to you and the fans is, whether it’s next year or when I’m 65, pulling a Jamie Lee Curtis coming back for Halloween, I will be there to finish Tree’s story. So, it’s just a matter of when they get all their ducks in a row.”
In Happy Death Day, self-centered college student Tree is murdered on her birthday, only to wake up at the beginning of the day. As the nightmare keeps repeating itself, she has to uncover her killer’s identity in order to stop the cycle. The sequel expands on the sci-fi element as she finds herself in a parallel universe as a result of her friend’s time-travel experiments.