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05/07/2024

Ti West speaks to Yahoo UK about the possibility of returning to the X universe in future, and why Maxxxine is the right ending for the trilogy.

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00:00You were saying that it's kind of bittersweet to say goodbye to this,

00:03and it was originally intended as a trilogy.

00:04I know there's been talk of maybe continuing,

00:06but I wondered, with the ending in particular,

00:10what was it that you wanted to achieve with Maxine's story?

00:12Well, I mean, it was really just meant to be one movie in the beginning,

00:15and then it just turned into this,

00:16and so I'm very proud of the three movies,

00:19and I'm cautious to mess it up.

00:22But, you know, in many ways, I wanted Maxine and all the movies

00:25to be standalone films by themselves.

00:27They're enriched if you've seen all three of them,

00:29but you don't need to see all three.

00:31And I wanted the ending of Maxine to be

00:34the appropriate ending to the movie Maxine,

00:36but also to feel like a conclusion of all three movies thematically.

00:40And that was a little harder.

00:43Well, I shouldn't say harder, but it was more pressure on myself,

00:46because the first two movies we made back-to-back,

00:47and no one knew we were even making them.

00:49This movie people did know,

00:51and there were fans at that point, and they were waiting for it.

00:53So to try to wrap up not only the story,

00:55but to wrap up the thematics of all three

00:58is a different challenge,

01:00and I think that was part of what was exciting to me,

01:04is to take on that challenge.

01:06So if we were to do anything more with these movies,

01:10I would just want to find a different way into it,

01:11because I think that we went about as far as we could

01:14with these three stories.

01:16But, you know, never say never.

01:18Yeah, never say never.

01:19I would always be curious to see The Puritan, for example,

01:22bringing that back with Lily Collins.

01:24Would you ever be interested in doing something like that?

01:26Yeah, I love Lily, so I'd be happy to make anything.

01:28I mean, the thing is, like, in about two weeks,

01:31I'm free of having to think about anything

01:34related to, like, the X universe at all,

01:36and that'll be the first time in five years

01:38that that's been the case.

01:38So I would love to just wake up and have, like, a week off,

01:41you know, and then we'll think about what's next,

01:45and could it be something in the world of all this?

01:47Sure, but maybe it's something else,

01:50and then come back to it later.

01:51Who knows?

01:52You know, I'm just...

01:53It's very strange to be on this side of it,

01:55you know, for the first time.

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