Warning: Main SPOILERS lie forward for 2025’s Anaconda!Ice Dice is not the one shock returning face in 2025’s Anaconda, because the film concludes with a Jennifer Lopez cameo to arrange a sequel, which director Tom Gormican is already teasing concepts for. Lopez co-led the 1997 cult traditional horror movie as a documentary director who, whereas trying to find a long-lost Indigenous tribe within the Amazon jungle, inadvertently turns into hunted by the titular large snake.
The brand new Anaconda, in the meantime, is led by Jack Black and Paul Rudd as two childhood associates who, overcome by a midlife disaster, resolve to attempt to make their filmmaking goals come true by becoming a member of up with two of their different associates to go to the Amazon and remake the unique. Nevertheless, very like Lopez and the remainder of the documentary crew characters of the unique, the group discover themselves in a combat for survival in opposition to a really actual large snake.
Forward of the film’s launch, ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan interviewed Tom Gormican to debate Anaconda. When requested about Jennifer Lopez’s cameo on the finish of the movie, the co-writer/director remembers approaching the Golden Globe nominee about probably returning for the movie, to which she instantly questioned whether or not the objective was “making enjoyable of the unique Anaconda,” however Gormican assured that was the other of his plan:
Tom Gormican: “No, this can be a love letter to the unique Anaconda.” And she or he was like, “Then I am completely in,” and got here in. She has an unbelievable presence. And I believe Jack and I have been each like, “Oh God, it is wonderful to have her right here.” However once more, it is the stamp of approval.
When requested a couple of potential sequel to the brand new movie, Gormican confirmed that Lopez’s cameo is meant to be the setup for one, calling it “your sequel system.” He does, nonetheless, denote that whereas he would “like to make a sequel” to the brand new Anaconda, “sufficient folks [need to] see this movie [so] that it warrants one” to develop on the film’s ending.
Additionally being introduced with the idea of the sequel seeing the brand new solid truly go off and remake different Sony IP, Gormican does name it “an fascinating concept,” however that the newest thought he and co-writer Kevin Etten had would “be all kinds of various villains” whereas nonetheless preserving the Anaconda title connected to the entrance:
Tom Gormican: We had talked concerning the concept of them remaking the film that they’d as youngsters. So, it will be like Anaconda 2: Sasquatch, nevertheless it’d simply be all kinds of various villains. [Laughs] However I do not know, I am unsure. I really feel like if we did one other Anaconda, I might like to see it in a metropolis, so I did not have to return into the jungle. [Chuckles]
As beforehand famous, Lopez was one among two main stars to return from the unique Anaconda for the meta reboot. Ice Dice seems within the film’s remaining act as himself, briefly saving the brand new characters from the titular large snake after they come upon a set of an “official” Sony-produced reboot. Lopez, in the meantime, seems in Anaconda‘s ending as herself, approaching the group with a suggestion to correctly direct and star in a brand new installment after having seen their unofficial remake.
Ought to Gormican and his inventive group achieve success in getting an Anaconda sequel off the bottom, it will be the primary of its variety. There have been all kinds of meta seems on the filmmaking trade, starting from the extra fictional The Fall Man to the true-story-inspired Nouvelle Obscure, however none have truly led to the manufacturing of a sequel of the tales they have been adapting.
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Moreover, it will be Lopez’s first-ever sequel to a franchise she helped begin. Excluding her meta cameo for the brand new Anaconda, the one sequels the star has in her filmography are the fourth and fifth installments within the Ice Age franchise, the previous of which marked her debut within the animated collection. Very like the meta horror-comedy, there have been talks of a sequel to her Netflix action-thriller The Mom, however nothing official has materialized.
As Gormican notes, the probabilities of an Anaconda sequel taking place will finally come all the way down to how the brand new movie performs on the field workplace. Presently sitting at a 49% approval score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s the best-reviewed installment within the franchise up to now, and has a solid of well-liked stars on the forefront. Nevertheless, with a crowded Christmas weekend on the field workplace pitting it in opposition to all the things from the blockbuster Avatar: Fireplace and Ash to the family-friendly SpongeBob Film: Seek for SquarePants, record-setting David and Oscar hopefuls Marty Supreme and The Testomony of Ann Lee, it can want some sturdy phrase of mouth to make the cash Sony needs to supply a follow-up.
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December 24, 2025
- Runtime
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99 minutes
- Director
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Tom Gormican