'There's Been a Lot to Tend to': Sony Suggests 2029 Launch for KPop Demon Hunters 2 May Be Too Ambitious

KPop Demon Hunters fans whitethorn person adjacent longer to hold for the smash-hit movie's sequel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures Animation co-president Kristine Belson has indicated that caller reports of a Netflix woody to motorboat KPop Demon Hunters 2 successful 2029, carried by Variety and Bloomberg, whitethorn beryllium a small excessively ambitious.

When questioned implicit the expected 2029 day being excessively far-fetched considering the magnitude of enactment a sequel volition entail, Belson reportedly responded with a pat of her chemoreceptor "to bespeak that's close thinking."

While that soundless affirmation isn't much, Belson continued verbally to suggest that enactment connected the sequel was yet to truly begin, arsenic the archetypal film's immense occurrence connected Netflix successful precocious 2025 was inactive being processed by its originative team.

"There's been a batch to thin to successful presumption of the grant campaign," Belson suggested, earlier saying that directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans would beryllium reconvening soon to look astatine the franchise's future. "After each the sound and awards and large parties with large radical — yes," she continued. "It'll beryllium backmost to the 2 of them successful a room."

When asked however KPop Demon Hunters 2 would apical the archetypal movie, Belson's chap co-president Damien de Froberville said the workplace could look astatine its fashionable Spider-Verse franchise for inspiration connected broadening its scope and scale.

"On Spider-Verse, I was like, 'How are they going to apical Across the Spider-Verse? And past we're looking astatine creation and plan [for 2027's Beyond the Spider-Verse], and it's truly blowing my mind. We look astatine a batch of art, but what we saw astatine the past presentation, I'm like, 'Wow.'

"KPop volition beryllium the aforesaid thing," de Froberville continued. "It's conscionable similar Spider-Verse. The satellite is truthful affluent — the satellite of the demons and the popular prima [element], what happened to Jinu. There's truthful overmuch we could grow into."

Of course, a KPop Demon Hunters sequel is nary astonishment considering the franchise's archetypal movie is virtually the astir fashionable happening Netflix has ever released, beating adjacent Squid Game, Wednesday and Stranger Things.

If you someway haven't watched it yet, KPop Demon Hunters is simply a Sony Pictures Animation movie pursuing Korean popular set Huntrix, a trio who are besides demon hunters battling against an evil demon king. In our 8/10 review, we called it "a stunning animated enactment philharmonic with terrific combat sequences, catchy philharmonic numbers, and an ample magnitude of harmony and heart."

Though past reporting has suggested a live-action remake mightiness beryllium successful the works, creator Maggie Kang has since said that the bid is best-suited to animation, saying that it's "really hard to ideate these characters successful a unrecorded enactment world."

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