Ready or Not 2: Should You Stay Through the Credits?
Ready or Not 2 slices back as a direct sequel to the 2019 shocker, with Samara Weaving returning as Grace under directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett—but is there a post-credits scene worth staying for?
Quick one for the end-credits sitters: if you were planning to camp out for an extra stinger after Ready or Not 2, you can relax. The sequel does its damage, rolls credits, and that is the show.
Should you stay through the credits?
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come does not include a mid-, end-, or post-credits scene. When the names start scrolling, you are clear to head out. No teaser for a next chapter tucked at the tail, and there is no official word yet on a third movie.
The movie, at a glance
- Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
- Back in the lead: Samara Weaving as Grace
- Also starring: Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood
A scrapped tag from 2019 ended up fueling this sequel
Even though neither Ready or Not film features a post-credits scene, the first movie almost did. In an early draft from writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, there was a tag set after the Le Domas family carnage: a hush-hush gathering of very rich people chatting about what went down, then a reveal of a massive crowd assembled to worship the ever-mysterious Mr. Le Bail. The kicker line? A gleefully blasphemous closer that would have left the theater buzzing.
"Hail Satan!"
That abandoned moment stuck with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, who recently talked about how it cracked open a bigger canvas for a follow-up. The first movie plays like a tight, nasty little chamber piece; the hinted-offstage world was begging to be explored.
"There was really something much bigger living off screen that was driving all of it."
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is now in theaters March 20.