Overview

• Cregger confirmed cutting a full scripted chapter that detailed Aunt Gladys’s backstory to maintain narrative ambiguity
• He discussed selective backstory options with Amy Madigan, intentionally limiting direction to let her shape Gladys’s mythology off-screen
• The film leaves Gladys’s motives and her life-extending scheme unexplained, heightening her unsettling on-screen presence
• Reports of a Gladys-focused prequel drawn from the deleted material remain exploratory and unconfirmed by studios
• Cregger’s other commitments, including potential Resident Evil directing talks, may affect the timing or viability of any franchise expansion