Smile 2 director teases that while the first movie explained the curse, the sequel will move in a surprising direction: “Now that the audience is familiar, it allows this new context”

Smile 2 director Parker Finn says that even though the flagship film explains the curse – audiences ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

“We had only sort of pulled back the corner of the rug to peek under,” Parker Finn tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday, September 12, which features The Penguin on the cover. While by the end of the first movie we know a lot about how the curse works – and even what it looks like – the writer/director asserts that there’s still a lot we don’t know and that he’s looking to surprise audiences with the direction this sequel takes.