Follow-up to one of the decade’s most divisive movies gets ‘exciting’ update

A major star has joined the film as a producer and told JOE about the project.

JOE spoke to Wood and Sarah Michelle Gellar about their fun new horror Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which you can read about right here.

We also asked the duo about their relationship with Ireland. You can watch a clip of that interaction below:

Wood, though, is also an esteemed producer of genre films, such as the acclaimed A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Mandy. This is alongside his business partner, Daniel Noah.

As such, we had to ask the Lord of the Rings star about The Land of Nod. This is writer-director Kyle Edward Ball's follow-up to his surrealist horror Skinamarink, which caused quite a stir back in 2022.

That movie is centred around two children who wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.

Made on a budget of just $15,000, Skinamarink split audiences right down the middle. Some loved its incredibly unsettling mood and its evocation of childhood fears, while others were alienated by its deliberately slow pace, its lo-fi aesthetic and its unconventional storytelling.

Despite its detractors, Skinamarink provoked discussion and is even considered in some corners to be a cult classic.

Watch Elijah Wood talk about The Land of Nod here:

It also cemented Ball as a filmmaker to look out for. As for his follow-up, The Land of Nod, Elijah Wood told JOE:

"I'm one of the producers on it... The Land of Nod is the follow-up to Skinamarink... If you're a genre fan, you know Skinamarink.

"Skinamarink's an incredible first feature from Kyle Edward Ball, who's really extraordinary.

"That movie is such an unsettling piece of atmosphere. There's very little dialogue in the film, and we were just really struck by it and reached out to him and asked him what his next project was and sort of struck up a conversation.

"That's how we got involved in Land of Nod, which takes a lot of what you know of Kyle's work and expands it in a really exciting way.

"I'm really stoked for that film."

Details are being kept under wraps for The Land of Nod at the moment. Its plot synopsis, however, says that it follows "a group of isolated neighbours in their small and secluded town in the northern Canadian territories during a snowstorm."

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is in cinemas on Friday, 20 March. The Land of Nod does not have a release date as of yet.