'Thanksgiving' Fans Get Promising Sequel Updates From Its Iconic Director, 53
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Will SayreNovember 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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"Head home for the holidays... in a bodybag." That was the tagline for a fake trailer played during Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double-feature back in 2007.
Created by Eli Roth, the faux preview was for a "movie" called Thanksgiving — and sure enough, years later, the iconic horror director, 53, turned his short creation into an acclaimed feature film.
Starring Patrick Dempsey, Thanksgiving was released in 2023 and quickly got the green light for a sequel — though it's now two years later and fans haven't so much as seen a teaser for the follow-up. Is the project still going to happen?
Roth is here to say that, yes, Thanksgiving 2 is still very much in the works. In a new interview for the Talk Is Jericho podcast, the filmmaker and actor provided juicy updates about the sequel that will leave fans of the first installment breathing a sigh of relief.
“We are doing some polishes on the script,” Roth told host Chris Jericho in the podcast episode published last week. “There was a kind of a second act issue that [co-writer Jeff Rendell] and I were having. We just kept going going around circles trying to figure out how to get through it. And then actually, another writer team had a really good idea, and we’re like, ‘Oh, let’s let them come in and take a pass because I think we’ve been we’ve kind of had our noses in it for two years."
The Inglourious Basterds star continued, "They love the franchise. They’re like, ‘We don’t want to change it. We love it. You guys have a brilliant sequel, but we think that... this is the issue.’ And we’re like, ‘Ah, yeah.’ But that’s cool to collaborate with people with outside views... My theory has always been, 'best idea wins.'"
Roth goes on to confirm that "the plan is for the script to get done this year and then for us to prep in the spring. I want to shoot it in the spring and that it'll be a studio movie."
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