Rei Ami says she’s ready to seek out out a few OkPop Demon Hunters sequel together with the remainder of us.
The 30-year-old, who supplies the singing voice of Zoey in the hit Netflix movie, dressed up as her personal character for Heidi Klum’s twenty fourth Annual Halloween Party on Friday (Oct. 31).
While talking to AND! News at the occasion’s crimson carpet, Ami was requested whether or not Zoey and her fellow demon-slaying members of Huntr/x will return for one other movie.
“I’m waiting for the call, just like you! You’re gonna find out when I do, so we’ll chat then,” she said.
That future, however, might be edging closer to reality.
According to DeadlineNetflix began early talks about a potential sequel in August, though the streamer nor Sony Pictures Animation has yet to make an official comment.
In an interview with the BBC earlier in October, co-director and creator Maggie Kang said there was “nothing official we will discuss” with respect to a sequel but that she and co-director Chris Appelhans believe “there’s positively extra we will do with these characters on this world”.
“And no matter it is going to be, it is going to be a narrative that deserves to be a sequel, and it is going to be one thing that we wish to see,” Kang added.
KPop Demon Hunters has become a major cultural phenomenon, surpassing Squid Game as Netflix’s most watched title with over 390 million views.
On the red carpet, Ami said she’s “honored and in awe” of the film’s global impact.
“Just really humbled by the energy of music and good artwork and the way it can actually, really—it sounds so cliché—change the world,” she said. “That’s precisely what this movie and this soundtrack did, and it introduced a lot hope and light-weight into such a dim, grim world, and I really feel actually privileged to be part of it.”
The soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 for two nonconsecutive weeks, and its breakout hit “Golden” (carried out by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami) led the Hot 100 chart for eight consecutive weeks.
The movie’s story facilities on Huntr/x, a Ok-Pop trio that doubles as a bunch of demon hunters who defend their followers from supernatural threats. Their mission is to seal the “Honmoon,” a mystical barrier that forestalls demons from crossing into the human world.
The singers conflict with the Saja Boys, a brand new rival boy band secretly made up of demons. Meanwhile, Rumi harbors a painful secret that would threaten their whole mission.