Brandon Sklenar Remains Open to Doing anIt Ends With UsSequel: 'I Hope We Can Get It Together'

Mar. 15, 2025

Brandon Sklenar on Aug. 6, 2024.Photo:James Devaney/GC Images

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WhetherIt Ends With Uswill get a big-screen sequel is still unclear, butBrandon Sklenaris ready and willing to play Atlas again.Speaking withAccessat a Ralph Lauren show in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 5, the actor, 34, said he hopes he and the rest of the cast can come together to adapt the 2022 book that authorColleen Hooverwrote,It Starts With Us, as a follow-up to their recentbox office hit.“Your guess is as good as mine at this point. I would love to do it, I really would, I would love to do it,” Sklenar said when asked about a sequel. “I hope we can get it together because I think the fans deserve it, and I’d just love to tell more of Atlas' story and get into his past a little more. Yeah, it would be beautiful if we can do it. I would love to.“WhileIt Ends With Ushas grown into its starBlake Lively’shighest-grossing movie everat the box office,reports of behind-the-scenes tensionamong the cast and director-costarJustin Baldonihave clouded the potential for a sequel.Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar in It Ends With Us.Jojo WhildenNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Baldoni, 40, toldVarietyin August that his production company Wayfarer Studios still holds the option to adaptIt Starts With Us, but he said at the time that he had not “even begun to think that far ahead.“The star also toldEntertainment Tonightat the New York City premiere Aug. 6 that he thinks Lively should direct the sequel if it happens. “I think that there are better people for that one,” Baldoni said at the time. “I thinkBlake Lively’s ready to direct, that’s what I think.“Back in August, a Hollywood source told PEOPLE that discussions of a second movie had not yet taken place. About issues behind the scenes, a source from the movie’s set said, “There is much more to this story.““The principal cast and Colleen Hoover will have nothing to do with [Baldoni],” that source said at the time.Brandon Sklenar on Aug. 6, 2024.Cindy Ord/GettySklenar, who previouslyspoke out about some of the online negativity surroundingthe film, also toldAccessthat the movie’s success has increased the degree to which he is recognized in public.“Way more than I was before, yeah, for sure,” he said. “It’s beautiful though. Just happy to be [part of it].“It Ends With Usin theaters now.

WhetherIt Ends With Uswill get a big-screen sequel is still unclear, butBrandon Sklenaris ready and willing to play Atlas again.

Speaking withAccessat a Ralph Lauren show in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 5, the actor, 34, said he hopes he and the rest of the cast can come together to adapt the 2022 book that authorColleen Hooverwrote,It Starts With Us, as a follow-up to their recentbox office hit.

“Your guess is as good as mine at this point. I would love to do it, I really would, I would love to do it,” Sklenar said when asked about a sequel. “I hope we can get it together because I think the fans deserve it, and I’d just love to tell more of Atlas' story and get into his past a little more. Yeah, it would be beautiful if we can do it. I would love to.”

WhileIt Ends With Ushas grown into its starBlake Lively’shighest-grossing movie everat the box office,reports of behind-the-scenes tensionamong the cast and director-costarJustin Baldonihave clouded the potential for a sequel.

Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar in It Ends With Us.Jojo Whilden

Jojo Whilden

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Baldoni, 40, toldVarietyin August that his production company Wayfarer Studios still holds the option to adaptIt Starts With Us, but he said at the time that he had not “even begun to think that far ahead.”

The star also toldEntertainment Tonightat the New York City premiere Aug. 6 that he thinks Lively should direct the sequel if it happens. “I think that there are better people for that one,” Baldoni said at the time. “I thinkBlake Lively’s ready to direct, that’s what I think.”

Back in August, a Hollywood source told PEOPLE that discussions of a second movie had not yet taken place. About issues behind the scenes, a source from the movie’s set said, “There is much more to this story.”

“The principal cast and Colleen Hoover will have nothing to do with [Baldoni],” that source said at the time.

Brandon Sklenar on Aug. 6, 2024.Cindy Ord/Getty

Cindy Ord/Getty

Sklenar, who previouslyspoke out about some of the online negativity surroundingthe film, also toldAccessthat the movie’s success has increased the degree to which he is recognized in public.“Way more than I was before, yeah, for sure,” he said. “It’s beautiful though. Just happy to be [part of it].”

It Ends With Usin theaters now.

source: people.com