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Though a years-later follow-up to Isn't It Romantic that adopts a different genre is a novel idea, it might not be ideal for the forthcoming project to venture into the Horror genre. This is really true as the horror film has already been produced. With a small theatrical run, the 2015 meta horror-comedy The Final Girls featured a young woman and her pals caught in the mythical 1980s slasher Camp Bloodbath. Their arrangement was quite similar.
Beyond only presenting a comparable idea, the film has an even more relevant relationship to Isn't It Romantic. Though they have different screenwriters, Todd Strauss-Schulson directed both The Final Girls and the 2019 Romantic Comedy. Previously directing A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas in 2011, Strauss-Schulson added his own visual vision to both films, separating the real worlds from the movie worlds by using a fanciful look with greatly saturated colors and stylized shapes.
Is It Romantic getting a Sequel with a Horror theme? Rebel Wilson played Natalie, a New York architect caught in a Romantic Comedy who must live out the clichés of the genre in her life. Among the star-studded ensemble of the film were Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Betty Gilpin, and Bowen Yang. Reviews of Isn't It Romantic were divided; a lackluster box office result of $48.8 million against its $31 million budget overshadowed a 69% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.
New Line is early developing a horror movie-themed Isn't It Romantic Sequel via Deadline, presumably with an eye toward the central heroine finding herself imprisoned in a horror film. Look Both Ways screenwriter April Prosser is in talks to draft the script for the follow-up, Isn't It Scary. Nobody had been formally linked to the project at the time of writing. This makes it unclear whether the film is meant to highlight Rebel Wilson playing either a completely different character or Natalie once more.
The fact that the Isn't It Romantic sequel would probably pale in contrast to The Final Girls is another problem. Strong emotional core with a tale of a young woman struggling with her loss over the death of her mother defined the Nina Dobrev horror film. Though Isn't It Scary hasn't yet been written, it has a chance of finding a similarly great hook as the last franchise edition focused more on the comedy than on sentiment. Therefore, its sequel appears improbable to follow in the 2015 movie's trajectory.
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For a long time, Australian architect Natalie residing in New York City had always thought that what she had seen in romantic comedies was only fantasy. Natalie wakes up and finds she is self-aware of her existence in a "PG-13 Universe" and must escape every cliché to finally fall in love and achieve the happily ever after that will bring her back to reality after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out.
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An horror-themed sequel to the 2019 romantic comedy Isn't It Romantic is under development. Rebel Wilson played Natalie, an architect living in New York who runs across a mugger and finds she is caught performing the cliches of the usual romantic comedy. Star-studded with names like Liam Hemsworth, Adam DeVine, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Betty Gilpin, and Bowen Yang, the cast comprised Though the Rotten Tomatoes gave Isn't film Romantic a good 69%, film wasn't a huge hit. Complementing its $31 million budget, the movie was a box office letdown as well, only making $48.8 million.
Deadline claims that New Line is early on in development for a horror-themed Isn't It Romantic sequel. The sequel, titled Isn't It Scary, is expected to center the central character's getting caught in a horror film. April Prosser, the Look Both Ways screenwriter, is under contract to pen the script. Still up for debate is the cast. Whether Rebel Wilson will play Natalie again or whether the sequel will include a new heroine entirely is uncertain.