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Curry Barker‘s directorial breakout is making a scatter pinch its opening weekend, and he’s already considering a followup.
The Obsession writer/director precocious admitted to a “plot hole” that bothers him successful his scary film, now successful theaters, and really nan rules of nan One Wish Willow impacts a imaginable sequel aliases anthology series.
“I mean, it’s benignant of a crippled hole. It’s thing I don’t for illustration to deliberation astir excessively much, because it wholly doesn’t make consciousness that there’s a world of group conscionable making wishes,” he told Total Film aft a caller screening. “It really doesn’t make immoderate consciousness astatine all.”
In Obsession, Bear (Michael Johnston) makes a wish connected a mysterious novelty point called a One Wish Willow that his friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) would emotion him much than thing successful nan world. Bloody consequences ensue earlier it’s casually revealed that everyone gets to make 1 wish connected nan One Wish Willow, which really comes true.
Barker continued, “If nan One Wish Willow really works, which it does successful this lore, and group are conscionable making wishes near and right, location would beryllium immoderate crazy—like, dragons would exist. And nary of that. The world is beautiful normal from what we spot successful this movie. So, it doesn’t really make sense.
“Here’s my take; each clip personification makes a wish, they participate into an alternate reality wherever their wish comes true, truthful you’re not experiencing everybody’s wish astatine nan aforesaid time. And that’s why—but that doesn’t make consciousness because nan money falls from nan ceiling. Yeah, it’s broken,” he conceded, referencing a segment successful which Bear’s friend Ian (Cooper Tomlinson) wishes for a ample sum correct successful beforehand of him.
With a afloat slate that includes Blumhouse’s Anything but Ghosts and A24’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Barker is still unfastened to revisiting nan world of Obsession and nan One Wish Willow.
“I evidently person a mates much things that I’m excited astir next, but I do spot Obsession 2, maybe. Or moreover what really is breathtaking to maine is possibly an anthology, for illustration a one-hour episode,” said Barker. “Each section is simply a different wish that goes wholly disconnected nan rails. Maybe I’ll nonstop nan aviator pinch nan aforesaid DP, and you could induce different filmmakers to benignant of springiness their rotation astatine it. That would beryllium really cool.”
