Marcus Parks

Maybe don't say Satan so much.

What?

Yeah.

I think the big thing for us was just...

knowing that over seven to seven years since we made the first one that it somehow like magically found a fandom, that we wanted to deliver something that felt satisfying and obviously in the world of the first movie without being overly precious about it.

All of our favorite sequels, you know, like T2 and Aliens, like they take...

They take the DNA of what's great about the first movie and they they apply it to something new and fresh and surprising.

And ultimately, like those movies, whether you see the first or not, like you're just you can be such a fan of and enjoy and enjoy them as a singular experience.

And I think for us that the pressure was just enormous.

how do we make something and not be afraid to, in some ways, like maybe shit on the first movie a little bit and not be like overly, like overly cautious and, and not try to be like too nostalgic about, about what it is, but to maybe challenge our ourselves and challenge the audience's notion of what the movie could be.

And that was, that was just, it was fun, but there was a lot of pressure in it too, because you, you obviously want to deliver something that people don't,

you know, that people love and enjoy in the same way as, you know, as the first movie.

The first movie felt really effortless.

Yeah, totally.

And I think that like so much is like – and what we were sort of talking about like the Satanist stuff, that we love the idea of a modern – the modern interpretation of something like really ancient and full of tradition and how just bastardized that has become.

And by the way, I feel like that happens with all old institutions and we just –

we love that you have people with all of like trappings of modern life, like still trying to like hold on to something that has its roots in a time and a mythology that are maybe like not even understandable.

There's it's so old.

And so, you know, so uncanny and strange.

And that to us is like where all of that fun lives, like people like not knowing if the fucking devil exists, like all of that's just so weird.