ThanksgivingSequel Coming in 2025, Director Eli Roth Confirms: 'John Carver Will Kill Again!'

Mar. 15, 2025

Gina Gershon and Patrick Dempsey in “Thanksgiving” (2023).Photo:Pief Weyman / TriStar Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

Pief Weyman / TriStar Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

Thanksgivingis getting a bloody second course.

On Thursday, directorEli Rothconfirmed he’ll be making a sequel toThanksgiving, the horror movie that debuted in theaters earlier this month.

“Great news: I got the call this morning from Sony — we’re doing a sequel. Going back for seconds.Thanksgiving 2is a go,” said Roth in avideoon Instagram, adding, “We want to out-do ourselves, make it better than the first one.”

Roth, 51, called it a “dream” to start a “slasher franchise” and added that the sequel will hit theaters “sometime in 2025, probably around Thanksgiving.”

In the caption, he wrote, “BREAKING NEWS! John Carver will kill again! @thanksgivingmovie sequel is a GO!!! Thank you everyone who supported ORIGINAL HORROR in theaters!!! Go see it now on the big screen while it’s in cinemas, sequel set for release in 2025! Taking a year to really get the script right, working on it starting today!”

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Thanksgiving’s cast includes Patrick Dempsey (PEOPLE’s current Sexiest Man Alive!), Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon.

Its plot is about a masked serial killer (dressed like a 17th century Pilgrim) claiming victims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, after a Black Friday incident results in a tragedy.

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Roth is known for making films likeCabin Fever,HostelandThe Green Inferno.Thanksgivingstems from the fake-movie-trailer segment he directed for 2007’sGrindhouse.

The director recently told PEOPLE aboutseeingThanksgivingcome to fruition 16 years afterGrindhouse.

“It was really a pleasure not just to make a Thanksgiving movie, but to fill the November horror movie void,” he said. “I felt like the calendar has been missing a November horror movie. It’s been my life’s mission to bring Halloween into November.”

Thanksgivingis now in theaters.

source: people.com