Those kooky Daniels are officially coming back. Universal recently planted a flag on November 19, 2027 — the Friday before Thanksgiving — for the untitled next film from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmaking duo behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Details? None. The trades keep telling us the film is “shrouded in secrecy.”
However, here’s a major update: Kwan is telling Collider that the film is set to shoot this summer, and that it’s a “sci-fi action comedy.”
We're about to shoot this summer, and it is coming out, if all things go to plan, next November of 2027 […] It's going to be a kfun sci-fi, action comedy with a big heart. Very existential. All those things that you would hope that one of our movies would be. But as the world gets more complex, I believe one of my jobs as a storyteller is to meet the world where it's at.
Originally dated for June 12, 2026, the project quietly vanished from Universal’s schedule last year, sparking rumors of creative overhauls, and Kwan does confirm that the script might have been tinkered with to adapt to the constant changes in the world:
The only thing you need to know is we are trying to do what we have always done, which is listen very deeply to what is happening in the world and try to internalize that and make something really fun and entertaining that kind of reflects that story back to the world. So, one of the reasons why it's taking so long is because what we're feeling and what we're hearing from the world is very complex and really nuanced, and there's so much paradox. To kind of reconcile all those things and put them into one movie, it takes time.
This mysterious new film will arrive more than five years after ‘Everything Everywhere’ hit theaters, a time when indie cinema was still reeling from the pandemic and the Daniels’ A24 oddity somehow became an indie hit.
Let’s not forget, the Daniels signed a five-year exclusive deal with Universal in August 2022, giving the studio first dibs on whatever wild, concoction they dreamed up next. It’s wild to think that the contract will already be up by the time they release this film.
There’s an enormous amount of pressure resting on The Daniels’ shoulders right now, and rightfully so. No matter what you thought of the film, following up “Everything Everywhere All at Once” isn’t just difficult, it’s nearly impossible. They conquered both the arthouse and the mainstream, sweeping the Oscars and redefining what audiences thought “indie” movies could be.
Now, after years of silence and secrecy, the world expects the duo to top themselves. That’s a brutal expectation for any artist, especially when the bar they set was stratospheric.
It’s now been 13 years since "The Grandmaster,” and it doesn’t sound like Wong Kar-wai will be making another film in the near future. His future seems to be on the small screen.