Jessica Rothe is hoping her recent horror movie runs means good news for Happy Death Day 3

This is per a new interview Rothe gave to THR this week, where she discussed the long road she’s been on in recent years, including touching base with Jason Blum after his company picked up her horror movie River out of TIFF last month. As for Happy Death Day, she revealed that she and Landon are still keeping its dream alive: The duo met up earlier this year to talk about the initial script Landon had written for the movie, and how they could update it to accommodate the seven years since Happy Death Day 2U. (Landon has, of course, been on his own journey—including that bit where he was all set to direct Scream 7 before circumstances beyond his control detonated the project and sent it into the hands of Kevin Williamson.) “Work begets work,” Rothe notes, “And my hope is that River getting a longer life—and a life in front of a larger audience—is wonderful for every single person involved. And maybe that cup will runneth over and spill over into some good juju for Happy Death Day 3 and Freaky Death Day.” (The latter being the suggested crossover between Landon’s Groundhog Day riff and his Freaky-Friday-as-slasher-movie homage from 2020.)

And if not? Well, it’s the kind of idea that can wait. “Hopefully, if all the stars align, we get to shoot it in the next little bit,” Rothe said of Happy Death Day 3. “But even if we don’t, it’s not a story that’s going to time out. There is no [mandatory] timeline in terms of when it makes sense for us to make this movie, and that’s one of the things that I love about it… It’s so exciting to really jump forward and see what’s going on with Tree and her life and if her life has gone how she thought it was going to go.” (Before, presumably, getting murdered a whole bunch again, once another lethal timeloop has her in its grasp.)