Overview

• Leone says the next chapter will deliver “a lot of answers” about Art’s backstory using a David Lynch–inspired, abstract approach.
• He underscores that maintaining the character’s mystique is essential and cautions that over-explaining would diminish the appeal.
• The director describes the origin reveal as a calculated risk and believes it can preserve what makes the icon work.
• He is scripting the movie as the conclusion to the current saga yet says he will “never say never” to future installments.
• The film remains in development with franchise leads David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera tied to the continuity as earlier supernatural threads set the stage.