The first photo of one of the cave crawlers (Adam Harvey) from “The Descent 2” has hit the webs. According to Fangoria, all the original cast of the first film have returned for the sequel.
Director of the original, Neil Marshall, is not helming this time around, but instead serving as executive producer.
“It was about two years ago that Celador Films producer Christian Colson told me there was a good chance of a sequel and asked if I wanted to direct it,” said Marshall. “As far as I was concerned, ‘The Descent’ sewed everything up on my own creative terms. At the end of the day, it was going to be another film set in caves with Crawlers, and did I want to revisit that again so soon? The answer was no. I felt the ingredients that made the first film work so well needed to be reinvented by someone else.”
“The Descent 2” begins with a confused, traumatized Sarah emerging from the Appalachian mountain caves where she confronted frightening foes: the Crawlers and her darkest dreads. With no rational explanation of what exactly happened or why she’s covered in blood, the police force her back into the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing girlfriends. But as the rescue party enters further uncharted territory, gradual flashbacks start haunting Sarah as shocking memories return. Only she begins to realize the full horror of their futile mission-and only she knows what lurks to trap them in the eerie shadows of the labyrinthine warrens.
Some might wonder why she’s alive at all, considering that Sarah was left to the claws of the Crawlers at the conclusion of the film’s British cut (a bleak finale excised in the U.S. edition).
Shauna Macdonald said:
“Yes, we do pick up from the American ending [where Sarah survives]. So Sarah is very much back and we see her going back and her journey again. I have to say, I think it looks awesome. Jon Harris, who’s directing is doing an amazing job.”
