Overview
- Multiple outlets reported Friday that Alexandre Aja will direct Crawl 2 and that Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd have been cast as the new leads.
- Paramount has scheduled production to start in Hungary later this month, a move consistent with current cost and location strategies for studio films.
- Writers credited on the project include Jason Harry Pagan, Andrew Deutschman, Aja and Gregory Levasseur, and producers named include Craig Flores, Sam Raimi and Alexandre Aja.
- The sequel shifts the disaster-horror premise from Florida to a hurricane-hit New York where alligators invade streets and sewers, though detailed plot elements remain scarce.
- The original 2019 Crawl was a low-budget commercial success, and the sequel—reported to have been in development since at least 2024—reflects Paramount’s aim to expand the franchise while spotlighting new protagonists and a larger urban scale.