‘Ready or Not 2’ Was Almost Just a Post-Credits Scene After the Original

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Plenty of sequels flirt with nonexistence, and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is no exception. But even if filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett hadn’t gotten the chance to make their upcoming follow-up, they very nearly blew its entire premise on a post-credits scene in the original.

“I don’t think we ever thought of a sequel,” Bettinelli-Olpin told a South by Southwest crowd in Austin over the weekend. “I think we thought we were making it this is one and done.”

The 2019 original starred Samara Weaving as a woman, Grace, who, on her wedding night, discovers that she’s married into a cabal of extremely wealthy satanists. The Le Domas family inform her that she has to survive until dawn while they hunt her down in service of the devil — who they simply refer to as “Mr. Le Bail.” It’s very bloody, very funny and, it’s

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