The story that began with The Collector and continued with The Collection was set to become a trilogy with The Collected, which had been in production before shutting down back in 2020. It’s now been two years since we’ve heard a peep about the movie, leading us to wonder if it’ll ever be picking back up production. The answer to that question, it seems, is… maybe?
Chatting with ScreenRant this week, director Marcus Dunstan (The Collector, The Collection, Unhuman) commented on the possibility of the film coming back to life, offering some hope.
Dunstan tells the site, “You know, I wouldn’t waste anyone’s hopes, especially my own, and we’ve got hope. Here’s what’s great, there are folks working on getting that back and it’s just taken a long time. It’s been slow and I think there’s a lot of things to untangle, but we’re going to use our time to hope that it all works out, because we got a chance.”
“The coolest thing is you don’t know all the time if, when you get out, this lofty goal will work,” Dunstan continues. “So it’s like, there’s no reason to do another one unless it can be the best one. Then, man, we get this tease back after going like, ‘Holy cow!’ We never stopped talking and thinking in this universe and it was like, ‘Okay, there’s something here that I would fall on the sword for every day’ and I love that, that felt right. So that also keeps my hopes way high, I’m dreaming for it. I want to do that, I think that would be great.”
Josh Stewart was set to reprise the role of Arkin in The Collected. with Emma Fitzpatrick also coming back. The cast was to include Randy Havens (“Stranger Things”, Godzilla: King of the Monsters), Dot-Marie Jones (“American Horror Story”, 3 From Hell) and Navi Rawat (Feast, The Collection), as well as horror legend Tom Atkins (The Fog, Halloween 3).
Marcus Dunstan was once again in the director’s chair for The Collected, which was co-written by Dunstan and his Collector/Collection collaborator Patrick Melton.
At the end of The Collection, Stewart’s Arkin quite literally collected the Collector, so the third film’s title is pretty perfect. Stay tuned for more on The Collected as we learn it.
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