Anna and the Apocalypse director John McPhail has revealed there have been discussions about returning to the festive musical horror with a follow-up.
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In an interview with ComingSoon for his latest film Dear David, we asked if there was any chance of him returning to that world, and there was a very confident answer.
”100%. We’ve chatted about it; we’re all like the best of friends still.” McPhail replied, ”When we finished it, we were like, ‘’Done, no sequel!’’ As we became the adults we were pointing the finger at in that film and got families and grown up, and feel like we’ve got something to say in that world. So yeah, definitely not right this second, but yeah.”
McPhail directed Anna and the Apocalypse in 2017. The movie is a Christmas musical set during a zombie apocalypse in Scotland. School student Anna Shepard (Ella Hunt – Dickinson) plans to travel the world when her final term ends, but her father is less than impressed with this. Unfortunately, Anna’s plans are derailed when the dead rise at Christmas time, causing Anna and her school friends to scramble and survive the undead on the streets of their sleepy town of Little Haven. But their spiteful teacher (Paul Kaye – Game of Thrones) might be a more significant concern.
The movie also starred Sarah Swire (Dear David), Mark Benton (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), and Ben Wiggins (Mary, Queen of Scots).
Dear David, a horror film based on Buzzfeed comic artist Adam Ellis’s story of an internet curse, is in select theaters and on VOD on October 13, 2023.
