Everything Everywhere All at Once directors say sequel idea was just a joke

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"Not true at all"

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Everything Everywhere All at Once directors the Daniels (AKA Daniel Kwan and Daniel  Scheinert) have confirmed that a previous comment about a sequel to the movie was only a joke.

"Not true at all," the Daniels tweeted in response to an IndieWire article about a "potential" sequel. "Don’t even remember making this joke. Must have been back in March when the idea of a sequel was especially comically far fetched to us."

"If we ever were to do a sequel to this movie, it would be about Evelyn getting radicalized [by social media]," Kwan said in an interview with director Edgar Wright for Sight & Sound, which was published online in June. "And then Joy would have to go out and save her mom." 

Scheinert added: "I realized that we never say anything about the internet. We don’t really point at anyone’s phone. No one is looking at social media. But the movie is totally a reaction to that. Jobu/Joy is like a character that grew up on the internet who is struggling to be understood by her mum, who did not grow up on the internet. I don’t want to tell you about the chat rooms I went into when I was ten, but it was weird. It’s changed just how overstimulated and distracted we are." 

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Emily Garbutt
Emily Garbutt
Entertainment Writer

I’m an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering everything film and TV-related across the Total Film and SFX sections. I help bring you all the latest news and also the occasional feature too. I’ve previously written for publications like HuffPost and i-D after getting my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism.