{"id":624527,"date":"2026-09-14T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:24:09","slug":"happy-death-days-jessica-rothe-chris-landon-broke-the-third-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624527\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe & Chris Landon “Broke The Third Movie”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Jessica Rothe<\/a> grows in her \u201cscream queen\u201d cinematic career, the Happy Death Day<\/a> star is ready to return to her horror roots.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile discussing her new Joshua Giuliano slasher River at Deadline\u2019s TIFF Studio, the actress revealed she and Happy Death Day franchise writer\/director Christopher Landon<\/a> \u201cbroke the third movie\u201d and just need funding.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo, Chris Landon and I have actually broken the whole story, which was really fun,\u201d she said. \u201cWe went to an undisclosed location\u2014a Le Pain Quotidien in between our houses\u2014and sat there for hours and broke the third movie. And now, we\u2019re just waiting for Universal<\/a> and Blumhouse<\/a> to [give us] just a little money. \u2026 This is a Deadline exclusive. You heard it here first.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn Happy Death Day (2017), penned by Scott Lobdell and directed by Landon, self-centered college student Tree Gelbman (Rothe) is murdered on her birthday, only to wake up again at the beginning of the day. As the nightmare keeps repeating itself, she has to uncover her killer\u2019s identity in order to stop the cycle.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2019 sequel Happy Death Day 2U, written and directed by Landon, expands on the sci-fi element as she finds herself in a parallel universe as a result of her friend\u2019s time-travel experiments.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow with her role as Carla in Giuliano\u2019s River, Rothe brings fans a much darker slasher, co-starring Jane Levy, Max Mattern and Dane DiLiegro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Jessica Rothe grows in her \u201cscream queen\u201d cinematic career, the Happy Death Day star is ready to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[56740,321,242447,93,76871,61,60,32434,21649],"class_list":["post-624527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-blumhouse","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-landon","tag-entertainment","tag-happy-death-day","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jessica-rothe","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}