Director Christopher Landon just hit the marquee again with the well-reviewed thriller Drop, which has me even more excited about the threequel in the Happy Death Day black comedy slasher series. Both Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, were critical and box office hits for Blumhouse Productions, and have evolved into landmark modern slasher movies. Both movies elevate the traditional slasher formula by placing the primary victim in a time loop, forcing her to relive her murder at the hands of a baby-face-masked killer over and over again. 4733i

Happy Death Day 3is finally starting to gain momentum, and there is already some exciting updates about the genre-bending slasher franchise's return. In Happy Death Day 2U, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) discovers that her boyfriend's science nerd roommate Ryan (Phi Vu) invented a machine called the Sisyphus Quantum Cooling Reactor (SISSY for short). SISSY then overloaded and not only trapped Tree in another time loop, but it sent her to a parallel dimension as well.

Happy Death Day 3 director Christopher Landon reveals a key difference in the sequel and why it took six years to get greenlit. The Happy Death Day 3was officially confirmed to be moving forward in April 2025, with both Landon - who directed the previous two movies - and series star Jessica Rothe revealing its development. This comes six years after the previous movie in the series, Happy Death Day 2U, came out in theaters, becoming both a box office success and earning positive critical reception.

Happy Death Day 3has gotten an exciting update from the franchise director and main star. Helmed by Christopher Landon, 2017's Happy Death Day was a Groundhog Day-style horror movie wherein a college student gets stuck in a time loop and has to relive the fateful day she gets murdered, over and over again. The movie featured a leading cast including Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, and Charles Aitken. The movie was followed up by Happy Death Day 2U in 2019, and a third film was floated.

Happy Death Day 3 director Christopher Landon reveals how the third film will be different from the previous movies. Happy Death Day was released in 2017 and became a box office hit, grossing $125 million worldwide against a production budget of just $4.8 million. The Happy Death Day movie cast includes Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, and Ruby Modine. It follows a college student murdered on her birthday night, who finds herself reliving the day and sets out to find her killer. The sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, earned $64.6 million worldwide.

Happy Death Day 3's proposed storyline has been revealed by the franchise's writer-director Christopher Landon. The original Happy Death Day combined the premise of GroundhogDay with a traditional slasher, turning a victim, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), into a final girl by putting her into a time loop that resets every time she is killed by a murderer in a baby mask. That film was a hit, garnering the 2019 sequel Happy Death Day 2U, which found a more sci-fi-based premise as Tree found herself forced to continue resetting the loop in an alternate universe in order to get back home.

The reason behind Happy Death Day 3 delays has been clarified by director Christopher Landon. Happy Death Day was released in 2017 to positive reviews and box office success. The film follows Tree, a college student caught in a time loop that forces her to continuously relive the day of her murder until she finds her killer. A sequel, Happy Death Day 2U, was released in 2019, garnering similar reviews while not performing as well as the first film at the box office. Still, director Christopher Landon has plans for another sequel in the franchise.

After a few years of lingering in development hell, Happy Death Day 3has gotten a disheartening update from director Christopher Landon. The horror comedy franchise centers on college student Tree, played by Jessica Rothe, as she finds herself trapped in a time loop hunted down by a killer wearing the mask of her school bandit, while Happy Death Day 2U explored her being stuck in a time loop in an alternate dimension from her own. Though both films scored generally favorable reviews from critics and audiences alike, the 2019 sequel proved to be a disappointment at the box office in comparison to its predecessor, grossing just half of the original's $125 million box office haul, despite costing nearly double to produce.

Producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions says Happy Death Day 3 is being discussed with Christopher Landon, the director of the first two films in the franchise. Blumhouse Productions is known for its horror library, producing hits like Paranormal Activity, Get Out, The Invisible Man, and Us. The company's latest film, The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke, will be released on June 24 and has already received a bevy of positive reviews.

Happy Death Day 2U actor Sarah Yarkin would love to return for Happy Death Day 3. The Happy DeathDay films are an inspired cross between Scream and Groundhog Day, in which beleaguered college students have to solve elaborate time-loop-related mysteries while avoiding a masked murderer named Babyface. The films were made by Blumhouse Productions, the studio responsible forThe Purge, Get Out, and The Invisible Man.