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It doesn’t matter how well-reviewed a film is, how giant of a fandom it cultivates, or whether or not or not the inventive staff is determined to inform extra tales; the primary barometer for gauging extra installments is at all times at all times field workplace {dollars}, one thing The Visitor had briefly provide.
Regardless that it nearly instantly secured cult basic standing, the very fact it took lower than $3 million from theaters ensured that any speak of additional adventures for Dan Stevens’ David Collins remained firmly within the realm of wishful considering. Not less than, type of. There’s technically a follow-up to The Visitor, nevertheless it didn’t arrive in the best way its supporters would have needed.
A musical continuation arrived as an alternative, with a soundtrack having to make do within the interim whereas Adam Wingard and common collaborator Simon Barrett repeatedly acknowledged they’d love nothing greater than to take one other crack on the would-be franchise. It’s there, it exists, nevertheless it’s not likely what anybody requested for, one thing that’s been made clear but once more on the boards of Reddit.
The Visitor stays as fashionable now because it did nearly a decade in the past when it first landed with a important splash however business thud, and a musical accompaniment evidently isn’t how its most ardent of fanatics needed the story to proceed. After all, Wingard is a lot busy carving out his personal nook of the MonsterVerse having made the soar to studio-backed blockbusters, however the success of his monster mashes may simply give him the clout and leeway to make a live-action, feature-length The Visitor 2 a actuality.