Blumhouse’s long-awaited Happy Death Day 3 has finally received a positive update from franchise lead Jessica Rothe and director Christopher Landon. This comes after more than six years since the second installment Happy Death Day 2U made its theatrical release.
The Happy Death Day franchise began with the 2017 movie following Rothe’s character Tree Gelbman, a college student who gets her own version of Groundhog Day. Tree suddenly finds herself stuck in an endless time loop where she keeps reliving the same day after getting murdered by a mysterious killer wearing a baby face mask. Despite receiving mixed reviews, the first installment was a box office hit with a worldwide gross of over $125 million against a reported budget of around $4.8 million. Because of this, it was followed by a 2019 sequel which finds Tree in a parallel universe.
What did Jessica Rothe and Christopher Landon say about Happy Death Day 3?
During a recent appearance at the special double feature screening of the first two installments of Happy Death Day at Beyond Fest, Rothe and Landon offered an update regarding the current progress of the long-delayed Happy Death Day 3. They’ve officially confirmed that the third installment is indeed finally “moving forward” at Blumhouse. Further details about the project’s potential plot and new characters are still currently under wraps.
.@creetureshow and @jessica_rothe just confirmed Happy Death Day 3 is actually moving forward! (She said “we can’t say much” right before I began recording) pic.twitter.com/7IxOhaKXV9
— Eric Goldman (@TheEricGoldman) April 6, 2025
Prior to this update, Landon previously confirmed that his Happy Death Day 3 pitch will be unexpected and much bigger than the first two installments.
“I have a whole movie! It’s not even an idea. I pitched the entire movie to [Universal] and they loved it,” Landon said in a previous interview. “That was the funny part. They were like, oh my god, that’s so unexpected and so cool. It’s not dependent, it’s not set in the same day as the previous films, so it could be made now, or in two years or three years. It would still work. But the trickier thing too, and in fairness to them, it’s a bigger idea than the previous two films, so it would be a more expensive movie.”
(Source: Eric Goldman via X)
