After a critical and commercial failure that was the Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey readaptation following the character's film rights being allowed for use by the public domain, Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 has begun filming.
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Set for a Febuary 2024 release, the film is said to have a much higher budget than the first project - additionally, Nikolai Leon is set to reprise his role as Christopher Robin.
According to ScreenRant, the film is set to introduce another infamous Winnie The Pooh-turned murderous character in Tigger, who was absent in the first film.
Perhaps because Christopher Robin was able to escape Pooh at the end of the first film - with Piglet also meeting his demise, Pooh will potentially call upon the assistance of Tigger, as he was also one of the character's Christopher Robin "abandoned".
Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey 2 is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, with a release date for sometime in Febuary 2024.
We will update you when more details on the matter release.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher film written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and co-produced by Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey.
It serves as a horror sequel to A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books and stars Craig David Dowsett as the titular character and Chris Cordell as Piglet, with Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald in supporting roles.
It follows Pooh and Piglet who have become feral and bloodthirsty murderers, as they terrorise a group of young university women and Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood many years later after leaving for college.
The film was first announced on 24 May 2022, when it drew widespread attention due to its premise involving a character that was a beloved childhood icon, and it was met with divided reactions. There was even controversy surrounding the film among both the general public and the Winnie-the-Pooh fan community, with Frake-Waterfield claiming that he and the other members on the film's production received death threats and petitions for the film to be cancelled.
It was produced by Jagged Edge Productions in association with ITN Studios and went into development after the 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh book entered the public domain in the United States on 1 January 2022. The film was shot on a $100,000 budget in 10 days in the Ashdown Forest of East Sussex, England, which serves as inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood, the setting for the stories.