Quentin Tarantino’s love for Crawl helped Alexandre Aja get extra recognition, finally leading to a deliberate sequel.

It’s not typically that Quentin Tarantino feedback on new movies, kind of for the rationale that he doesn’t need to slam somebody who’s actively creating artwork. If he disses one, that would spell the tip of that film – and its director – earlier than it had an opportunity. So when he does discuss a brand new launch, it’s normally solely constructive. And that’s simply what occurred with Alexandre Aja’s killer alligator film Crawl, which he didn’t simply love however named certainly one of his favourite motion pictures of 2019.

That Tarantino liked Crawl was simply the form of increase Aja wanted. As he instructed The Hollywood Reporter, “It was such a nice surprise. I was really, really excited. I’ve met with Quentin a few times, and one of the times, we had dinner together in Paris right before I was going to make Piranha 3D. So I was pitching him all the scenes, and he was pitching me other things that he was thinking about, so I knew how much he loved these types of movies. My friend Eli Roth called me to say, ‘Hey, Quentin watched [Crawl] and really loved it.’ And then I saw the announcement online, so the fact that he really enjoyed the movie was the nicest thing ever. Sometimes, you do movies and you never know [how they’re going to be received]. But when you find an audience that also includes the critics and your peers that you admire the most, that’s why you keep trying to tell stories.”

And Aja will apparently carry that by means of along with his upcoming sequel to Crawl, which he says is an concept he has been creating ever for the reason that first one. “I would say that I never really stopped working on Crawl…After we were done, I kept thinking about all the other great setups that we could create, and it was really an exciting movie to make. So I wanted to really be involved in doing a sequel, and after a few troubled years with Covid and everything, I feel like we are now in a position that, hopefully next year, it might happen. So I’m excited. I’m ready to go. I’ve been lining up so many scenes and stuff, so it’s there. We just have to do it now and get back in the water.”

That doesn’t give us an excessive amount of to work off of, however Alexandre Aja will apparently transfer the motion from New Orleans to New York City (hey, Chicago was already taken!). Whatever the plot and wherever the setting, it’s undoubtedly close to the highest of our most anticipated horror sequels.

Are you a fan of Alexandre Aja’s Crawl? What do you hope for the sequel?