Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is getting a sequel, and this time, Pooh and Piglet's friend Tigger is getting in on the gory action.
IGN can exclusively reveal the first look at Tigger in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, which is slated for release in February 2024. Lewis Santon is set to play the character, and you can take a look at the images for yourself below.
Despite being one of the most prominent characters in the source material, Tigger wasn't a part of the original Blood and Honey. The reason, as writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield told us earlier this year, was that Tigger wasn't a part of the public domain when the first movie was in production.
The filmmakers pulled exclusively from A.A. Milne’s classic 1926 children’s book, which Tigger wasn't present in. Tigger is set to enter the public domain in January 2024, just one month before Blood and Honey 2's scheduled release sometime in February. So Tigger is fair game, and as producer Scott Jeffrey tells us, "Tigger is incredibly violent. He loves to torture his victims before killing them.”
Jeffrey added that the sequel has "a substantially higher budget so Rhys is really able to create a shocking, explosive and gore-filled movie. I truly think people will really dig what we are creating."
The cast includes Scott Chambers as Christopher Robin, Simon Callow as Cavendish, Ryan Olivia as Winnie-The-Pooh, and Peter DeSouza-Feighoney as Young Winnie-The-Pooh. The filmmakers say filming is currently underway, and more friends will join Pooh on his rampage.
The original Blood and Honey released earlier this year, and it gained a lot of attention for its premise. But in our Blood and Honey review, we said, "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey wastes an immediate-draw title on an underbaked, low-budget horror blunder that’s rougher than sandpaper."
For more, check out our full interview with director Rhys Frake-Waterfield about how Blood and Honey is just the beginning of ruining your childhoods.
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