Adam Wingard has more recently become known for his Monsterverse entries Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. But there’s a certain group of fans that will forever favor his earlier works, especially You’re Next and The Guest. So those folks in particular will be thrilled to hear that the director considers his next film, Onslaught, to be a continuation of that path.
At Onslaught’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, Wingard explained: “I saw this film as a completion of a trilogy. I thought it was You’re Next, The Guest, and then Onslaught. And Onslaught takes place in the same town as The Guest, and there [are] thematic through lines to it.” Dan Stevens, who starred in The Guest not long after leaving Downton Abbey, is also in Onslaught. (He was also in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, making him a Wingard frequent flyer.) “The Guest changed my life,” he told the SDCC crowd. “It’s a special little movie, and I’m very fond of it; a lot of people are very fond of it … I think a lot of people have been waiting for a sequel to The Guest in some way, but this is, I’m sorry to say, not exactly a sequel, but it is a spiritual sequel. And as Adam says, it lives in the same universe, but I get the opportunity to play an even more insane character.” Onslaught follows a former Army sniper (Adria Arjona) suffering from PTSD who still has plenty of ferocity (and an impressive stash of weapons) to draw upon when her home—and in it, her young daughter—comes under attack by rogue supersoldiers. Stevens’ character is one of the reasons why there are genetically engineered killing machines running around in the first place. The cast of baddies also includes Rebecca Hall and Drew Starkey.
