EXCLUSIVE: Sony Footage Worldwide Productions is ramping up two sequels to 2023 German field workplace hit The Three Investigators – Legacy of the Dragon (Die Drei ??? – Erbe des Drachen). Each journey mysteries are co-productions from Wiedemann & Berg Movie and Deutsche Columbia Footage Filmproduktion in cooperation with Kosmos Verlag.
The sequels, The Three Investigators – Carpathian Canine and The Three Investigators – Isle of Demise, might be shot back-to-back within the Canary Islands, with principal pictures starting in February. They’re scheduled to succeed in cinemas on January 23, 2025 and January 22, 2026, respectively. Tim Dünschede, who helmed the primary image, will direct each movies.
Based mostly on the bestselling youngsters’s e book sequence Die drei ???, printed by Kosmos Verlag, The Three Investigators – Legacy of the Dragon centered round a well-known trio of boy detectives in Transylvania who should unravel mysteries involving a long-missing boy, a mysterious brotherhood and a mysterious undead.
Returning solid members for the sequels are Julius Weckauf, Nevio Wendt and Levi Brandl.
The unique made its theatrical debut on January 26 final yr, opening to $3.2M from 4 markets, with Germany main at $2.8M. The movie held the No. 2 spot in Germany for 3 weeks and went on to gross $15.9M complete, together with $13M from Germany, to make it the second greatest native movie of the yr there.
The screenplay for Carpathian Canine is by Anil Kizilbuga with a narrative by Kizilbuga and Dünschede primarily based on The Thriller of the Invisible Canine by M.V. Carey. Isle of Demise is written by Anil Kizilbuga with a narrative by Kizilbuga, Dünschede & André Marx primarily based on the novel The Three Investigators – Isle of Demise by Marx.
The e book sequence has offered over 25 million bodily copies in Germany, and greater than 50 million copies of the audiobooks.
Shebnem Askin, EVP, Inventive Manufacturing & Head of Sony Footage Worldwide Productions commented, “We’re thrilled to announce the following two installments of The Three Investigators alongside our fantastic collaborators at Wiedemann & Berg Movie and sit up for producing these two entries back-to-back – a primary in German filmmaking historical past! That is such an exquisite movie franchise that’s loved by a large age vary of moviegoers who grew up studying the favored e book sequence or had been avid listeners of the audio drama.”
Max Wiedemann, Govt Producer & Managing Director, Wiedemann & Berg Movie provides, “The Three Investigators and their thrilling and sophisticated adventures have been fascinating and provoking total generations of youngsters in addition to adults for many years. What as soon as loved nice success as a e book and radio play has completely satisfied the German viewers on the large display screen and have become the No. 1 most seen German film in 2023 with 1.6 million admissions. We’re wanting ahead to persevering with this glorious success with this unbelievable group and companions.”
Justyna Muesch, Govt Producer & Managing Director, Wiedemann & Berg Movie, mentioned, “We’re excited to proceed the success of the Three Investigators with our three gifted younger actors, the nice director Tim Dünschede, our co-production accomplice Deutsche Columbia Footage Filmproduktion and Sony Footage Worldwide Productions. Carpathian Canine is one among most iconic and well-known circumstances within the canon of the Three Investigators classics with greater than 150M audio streams, and Isle of Demise, the one centesimal case, is likely one of the most profitable fashionable audio performs with over 280M audio streams. With each motion pictures we’ll ship the massive German fan base two lengthy awaited cinematic adventures.”
