Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert shoot down rumors of a sequel to their high-concept comedy-drama.
Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert recently debunked rumors that they are working on a sequel.
The filmmaking duo (known collectively as “Daniels”) took to Twitter to dismiss reports they were toying with a follow-up to their hit high-concept comedy-drama that revolves around “parents ‘radicalized’ by social media.” “Not true at all,” they tweeted. “Don’t even remember making this joke. Must have been back in March when the idea of a sequel was especially comically far-fetched to us.”
Everything Everywhere All at Once premiered in March 2022 and was met with near-universal critical acclaim. The film was also a surprise commercial success, raking in over $90 million at the global box office off the back of a $25 million budget and overtaking Hereditary as distributor A24’s highest-grossing release of all time. Everything Everywhere All at Once even drew favorable comparisons to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, with some critics arguing that the former told a better multiverse-focused story than the latter.
The cast also garnered considerable praise, with many pundits labeling star Michelle Yeoh’s performance as Evelyn Quan Wang one of the finest of her career. This is somewhat ironic, given the Daniels have previously admitted that Everything Everywhere All at Once nearly had a male protagonist, instead. “We were having trouble figuring out the casting for the father figure, and one of us started wondering what happens if we take Michelle’s character and flop it and she becomes the protagonist,” Kwan recalled. “And the film just opened up in a completely different way.”
Stunt coordinator Timothy Eulich subsequently stated that, in his opinion, few other performers could have performed the role as well as Yeoh. Backing up this claim, he cited the way Yeoh balances her considerable acting chops with her extensive experience of performing her own stunts and fight choreography. Eulich marveled at Yeoh’s ability to switch between different languages during the same line of dialogue, as well.
Everything Everywhere All at Once also marks the return of actor Ke Huy Quan, best known for his roles in 80s classics Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. Quan explained why he agreed to play Evelyn’s husband Waymond following a decades-long break from acting, shortly after the movie premiered. “When I first read [the script], it was one of the happiest readings I had ever done. This was the script that I wanted for many, many, many years. It didn’t exist and that’s why I had to make the difficult decision to step away from acting for more than 20 years,” he said.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is currently available via VOD, and arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Ultra HD Blu-ray on July 5, 2022.
Source: Twitter