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Celador, Pathe Gear Up for Second Descent

May 1, 2008

U.K. indie production company Celador Films is reuniting with French-owned and U.K.-based Pathe on a sequel to low-budget box office hit The Descent, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Neil Marshall horror flick earned $57 million at the box office, a sizable return on the original investment on a movie budgeted at less than $10 million.

Produced by Marshall and Christian Colson, The Descent 2 marks the directorial debut for its predecessor's editor, Jon Harris.

Based on a script by James Watkins (My Little Eye), the $10 million sequel will shoot more than eight weeks on location in Scotland and at London's Ealing Studios.

The stars of the original film, Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza, will reprise their roles, alongside Gavan O'Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge and Krysten Cummings.

The script sees the survivor forced back into the system of caves she battled her way out of in the first film, in a bid to locate the rest of her group.

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COMMENTS (30)

Posted by:

Landon

May 1, 2008

Well...that's completely unneccesary and lame.

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Daniel

May 1, 2008

Leave well enough alone, no?

Posted by:

prop

May 1, 2008

hold on... so they're completely ignoring the original ending where she didn't make it out and going with the lame american 'happy' ending where she did just so that they can make a sequel.

great. because that makes sense

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Justin

May 1, 2008

I've never seen the first one (and don't really plan to), but I know that if I battled my way out of a cave, fending off the attacks of cave monsters and lost some friends along the way, there is no way in HELL I would be going back looking for them. Sure, I'd be sad for a little while but I'd get over it.

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May 1, 2008

The first one was a great thriller with one of the best endings I've ever seen(I pretend the American version doesn't exist). This completely underminds the first ones ending...GREEDY!

Posted by:

Andy

May 1, 2008

I'm looking forward to it, the original's one of my favourite films. I'm glad Natalie Mendoza' and Shauna McDonald are coming back; all too often with horror sequels these days its just the exact same thing happening to a new cast.

I'm kinda curious about how it'll work though... her team all died apart from juno who she's deliberately left behind... though i suppose she didn't see them all die so might think they're still alive.

I'd heard about the american ending but didn't know what it was; thanks for clearing that up!

Posted by:

Clay

May 1, 2008

Wow, so in the other version no one makes it out alive? Hmm I wish I would've seen that one instead. Please don't judge all of us Americans based on hollywood please. lol

Posted by:

Rapid Bison

May 1, 2008

why they gotta ruin a good thing, the original was just fine as it was. theres no need for a sequel!!!!

Posted by:

Ryno

May 1, 2008

I will see this! Why? Because the first one was creepy as hell and I loved it...

Posted by:

family dude

May 1, 2008

no one makes it out alive at the end. how can two people suddenly reprise their roles for the sequel. im curious as to how they will pull that one off.