The Cabin in the Woods is one of the freshest, most inventive horror movies of the past decade -- a film that starts out as this very conventional story about a group of kids who find monstrous trouble while visiting a remote cabin in the woods, only to slowly transform into a wickedly wild and funny deconstruction of the genre itself.
And now the studio wants more.
Out doing press for The Martian [via Den of Geek], Cabin screenwriter Drew Goddard -- who teamed on Cabin with longtime collaborator Joss Whedon -- admitted that there's a desire for another Cabin in the Woods movie, admitting "the studio wants to do it" and that "they've come to us."
Goddard goes on to say that they never really expected to do a sequel for the film, and that the ending of the original doesn't seem to leave a lot of open room for a follow-up. "But that being said, the fun thing about Cabin is, the rules are pretty crazy," he adds. "We get away with a lot of crazy stuff. So I'm sure we could figure it out if we got inspired to. I know Joss and I both feel like we don't want to tarnish what we did with the first one. With a sequel, we'd only do it if it made us laugh hard enough, I suppose."
Goddard says he and Whedon aren't working on anything right now for Cabin 2, but that could change if the right idea strikes. If it were up to us, we'd definitely be down for a sequel or maybe even a prequel -- something set in a different place than the original that explores another familiar genre trope.
What do you think? Is The Cabin in the Woods the kind of movie that demands a sequel?