Searching Sequel Gets 2023 Release Date

Five years after Aneesh Chaganty broke into the movie trade in a giant means along with his directorial debut Searching, its sequel, Missing, now has a launch date from Screen Gems. Missing, which is described solely as “the subsequent installment within the Searching franchise,” stars Storm Reid and Nia Long. The movie is ready to hit U.S. theaters on February 24, 2023. Searching was a bizarre and memorable little movie; a U.S./Russia co-production, the movie stars John Cho as a father working with a police detective performed by Debra Messing with the intention to discover his lacking 16-year-old daughter (Michelle La).

The movie is ready completely on laptop screens and smartphones, which made it a singular watch — and Cho marked the primary main American studio thriller to be toplined by an actor of Asian descent. It ended up grossing $75 million towards a finances of lower than $1 mllion.

“With such restrictive visible parameters, a film like [Missing] requires a contemporary visible model to separate it from the unique,” Aneesh Chaganty stated in an announcement. “I’ve contributed what I can to this rising sub-genre. But if there’s anybody on the planet with the potential to take it even additional, it is Nick and Will, who have been there from the start.”

“Searching is to this point probably the most profitable film shot within the Screenlife format and the sequel is ready to develop into a brand new milestone,” producer Timur Bekmambetov added. “What appeared like an experimental approach a couple of years in the past has been given a momentum now with an increasing number of trade professionals turning to this digital filmmaking approach.”

Details on the plot are beneath tight wraps, besides that it “will function a brand new set of characters and an developed Screenlife thriller format the place the story performs out on the screens of the characters’ units.” 

Here’s the closest factor we’ve got to a synopsis, which is simply from its Wikipedia web page:

Missing is an upcoming American laptop display screen thriller movie written and directed by Nick Johnson and Will Merrick, from a narrative by Sev Ohanian and Aneesh Chaganty. It is a standalone sequel to the 2018 movie Searching, and stars Storm Reid, Nia Long, and Joaquim de Almeida.