In 2009, Megan Fox played Jennifer in Karyn Kusama’s horror film Jennifer’s Body.
The actress plays a high school girl whom no boy can resist. But the latter is in reality possessed by a terrible demon. A man-eater, he slowly transforms into a pale, sick and murderous creature. Needy, her wise childhood friend, will try hard to save the city’s youth, starting with her boyfriend Chip… Megan Fox – at that time the famous Transformers saga – gave an answer (and a passionate kiss) to Amanda Seyfried as well as Adam Brody and Johnny Simmons.
Written by screenwriter Diablo Cody, who had just won an Oscar for best original screenplay for Juno by Jason Reitman, Jennifer’s Body was not the success it expected. With a budget of 16 million, the sexy horror film grossed just over $31 million at the international box office and attracted 320,961 viewers in French theaters.
Although rated 2.7 out of 5 stars by the press and 1.9 by AlloCiné audiences, the feature film managed to gain particular popularity among viewers. Not only that, its sequel is currently being considered.
Sequel 15 years later
In a given visit to a specific site Bloody disgusting To promote the Lisa Frankenstein film, which he wrote, screenwriter Diablo Cody had mixed success. Jennifer’s body And on a possible sequel.
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Jennifer’s body
“I remember where the audience was when the film came out. It was a critical and professional failure. To be perfectly honest with you, I felt a little insulted. Releasing the film was a difficult experience. It was hard for me, it was hard for Megan Fox…
I felt a little insulted
And then people suddenly started talking about it like it was a good movie, which I always thought it was.” She declares before continuing: “I want to do a sequel. I haven’t worked with Jennifer’s body. I just need to partner with people who believe in it as much as I do and that hasn’t happened yet. I need someone who believes in it. Do and have billion dollars“
Warning, the following contains spoilers for the end of Jennifer’s Body.
Nothing has been decided yet, but the screenwriter is all set to write a sequel to his feature film. If no details regarding the story have yet filtered out, a major problem already arises: Needy kills Jennifer at the end of the film. So it will be necessary to explain how the demonic heroine could survive. The feature film may also focus on Needy, who manages to escape from a mental hospital at the end of the 2009 film…
While waiting to know more, Lisa Frankenstein
Diablo written by Cody and directed by Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin Williams) will be released soon. A 1989 horror film starring Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse and Carla Gugino. A nerdy high school girl accidentally reanimates the corpse of a young man from another century. She helps him adapt to modern life and make him the man of his dreams.