Produced by James Gunn and directed by David Yarovesky from a script penned by Gunn's brother Mark and cousin Brian,
Brightburn hit theaters this Friday, and is currently on track for a $9 million USD, three-day Memorial Day weekend. That's not bad for a film that had the modest production budget of $7 million USD.
Current tracking has the film's final box office tally at $21 million from North America alone, 3x its budget. When factoring in global numbers (the international box office accumulated another $7.8 million USD from Friday alone), a sequel seems like a no-brainer and the film definitely sets the stage for one.
Michael Rooker appears in a post-credits stinger, playing a conspiracy talk show pundit named The Big T, who attempts to warn the world about the menace in Brightburn, Kansas. He then shifts gears and begins talking about an equally dangerous half-man/half-sea-creature and a dangerous woman who strangles her victims to death with a rope.
His descriptions sound an awful lot like evil versions of
Wonder Woman and
Aquaman. If evil has found their
Superman, it looks as if they'll be getting their own
Justice League next.
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? With Brightburn, the visionary filmmaker of Guardians of the Galaxy and Slither presents a startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horror.