Will Christmas come before Halloween for Michael Dougherty? The writer director of the fantastic Trick r’ Treat announced last fall that there would indeed be a sequel to that film, but Deadline is reporting that he now has another holiday themed film in the works. Dougherty has signed a deal with Legendary, with whom he is doing TrT2, for the “twisted horror comedy” Krumpus. The director said the following about what drew him to the project
“The dark ancient origins of our holidays have always fascinated me. I’ve been drawing twisted Christmas cards for well over a decade, so it only made sense to bring some of that morbid yuletide fun to the big screen, and Krampus was the perfect mythology to do that. Christmas has been invading Halloween for far too long. It’s time to return the favor.”
We can attest to his twisted sense of humor when it comes to Christmas. He and Zach Shields (co-writter on Krumpus) created the following Christmas spots for us a couple of years ago.
There is no word on which project will actually come first, but it sounds like Krampus already has a script, while Trick R’ Treat 2 was still being worked on last we heard. So we may have a bit longer to wait until we see Sam again on the big screen.