Writer/Director Jonathan King’s 2006 wacky zombie comedy Black Sheep is getting a sequel with King back at the helm, Deadline reports today.
King will direct the sequel, currently titled Black Sheep 2, from a story he wrote with Matthew Grainger and Rosie Howells.
The filmmaker isn’t the only one back for this sequel to New Zealand’s most successful horror movie; lead actor Nathan Meister returns to the role of Henry Oldfield. Henry is the “sheep-phobic son of a farmer who discovers his twisted older brother has been carrying out dangerous genetic experiences on his livestock, which transform them from docile vegetarians to ruthless, carnivorous killers.” Meister will be joined by new faces on this outing.
As for Sheep 2’s plot, it’ll “follow a young scientist who is convinced that a dangerous new pathogen threatens the population and tracks it back to her hometown – which is located in the shadow of the remote sheep station where the macabre events of the original Black Sheep unfolded.”
Perhaps the most exciting news is that King and Meister will also reunite with Richard Taylor’s award-winning special effects company Wētā Workshop, who provided the gnarly creature effects in the first film. B-movie sheep zombie mayhem ensues in 2006’s Black Sheep, complete with fantastic creature and gore effects by Wētā Workshop (Krampus, District 9, Meet the Feebles). Black Sheep captures the tone of Peter Jackson’s early splatstick era but with modern SFX. That bodes well for the sequel.
The movie is produced by King and Grainger, alongside James Partridge and Samantha Braun of Terror-Fi Films, with executive producers Richard Fletcher of Libertine Pictures, Philippa Campbell, Ari Harrison, and Jasmin McSweeney from Umbrella Entertainment.
Umbrella Entertainment will distribute Black Sheep 2 in Australia and New Zealand and expect a 4K re-release of the 2006 film on the horizon, too. WTFilms plans to officially launch worldwide sales on the movie in 2025.
Production is currently set to begin in Spring 2025, so stay tuned for additional details as they arrive.
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