British producer Tea Shop Productions and director Scott Mann are discussing ideas for a follow-up to the low-budget but impressively made and cleverly marketed thriller “Fall”.
Released last year, the film starred Grace Caroline Currey (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods”) and Virginia Gardner (“Gaslit”) as friends who scale and then get stuck up a 2,000-foot radio tower in the desert.
Made on a $5 million budget, the film grossed close to $22 million at the box-office before a successful VOD release. Then it hit Netflix internationally in January where it scored top-10 rankings in four territories and has been a word-of-mouth success.
Despite no dedicated marketing resources, it has been Netflix’s second most-watched movie in the UK for two consecutive weeks, only beaten by the more high profile Netflix original film “Luther: The Fallen Sun” which sees Idris Elba reprising his iconic BBC detective role.
Tea Shop, the group also behind the “47 Meters Down” films, is kicking around ideas for a sequel with cofounder James Harris saying “we don’t want to make something that feels like a copycat or less than the first one.”
It’s not clear if Currey or co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan will reprise their roles from the first film, but the plan is to get the project moving later this year.
The original production built a 20 ft tower on a 100 ft hill combined with false perspective to achieve its look (with some discreet visual effects in post-production). When the film was reconceived from an R to a PG-13, it used deep fake AI tech to delete the film’s major swearing moments.
Source: Deadline
