By Peter Sciretta/July 18, 2014 3:00 pm EST
Searchlight owned the rights to any prequels or sequels to the I script he had sold to the company but Cahill wanted to make I Origins on his own (ie independently) and sell it at Sundance, like he did his first film. And Searchlight allowed it, I’m sure they had a first look agreement of some sort. The company ended up buying the film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival after its premiere.
Watch out for Germain Lussier’s full interview with Mike Cahill dives deeper into what the I Origins sequel would be about. We’ll be posting that interview at a later date so that people can see the movie before reading spoilers about what comes next. But yes, its set in 2035-2040 and the credits scene at the end of the film ties directly into where the story is headed.
I feel like its a similar situation as Zal Batmanglij’s (the third leaf of the Brit Marling/Mike Cahill collaborative trio) Sound of My Voice. Again, a horrible title, an awesome but challenging film that leaves the door open for continuation of the ideas and story. That film was planned as the first of a trilogy, and as much as I’d love to see them, I doubt the film’s $408,015 box office take will allow them to happen. Lets hope that doesn’t happen to I Origins.
And if for some reason more films aren’t considered viable, I’d love to see a comic book company help Cahill and Batmanglij continue their stories in the graphic medium. Who knows, it may take a few hundred thousand comics to be sold to greenlight a sequel. We live in screwed up times.
