It Follows director David Robert Mitchell’s highly anticipated Flowervale Street is reportedly delayed a year by Warner Bros to 2026.
David Robert Green’s mysterious Flowervale Street has been highly anticipated for some time and with good reason. It comes from the filmmaker behind such lauded movies as It Follows and Under The Silver Lake; it has a top-notch cast including Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor and the talented young Maisy Stella, recently seen putting in great work in My Old Ass. Oh, and the film is arriving shrouded in all sorts of mystery too, which always adds to the sense of intrigue.
Prepare to be intrigued for longer however, as World Of Reel is reporting that Warner Bros has pushed the film into March of 2026, a delay of 10 months.
According to the outlet, the film was almost complete and had test screened a few months back. Final Destination 6 will take the May 2025 slot once intended for it.
Little else is known about the hold-up at this point, although many will look at Warner Bros’ repeated delays of Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, another pricey auteur-driven project, and see several points of comparison. After all, Bong’s film also ended up facing a hefty delay and also eventually landed in a less desirable release slot.
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Although some will point to the existence of test screenings as a further comparison and speculate that Warner Bros is demanding the film to be recut, this movie is famously rumoured to film dinosaurs in some capacity, so perhaps the VFX need another pass.
Hopefully it’s the latter, as developing a knack for meddling is a reputation that Warner Bros can ill-afford to acquire. It’s surely seeking to restore its reputation as a filmmaker-friendly studio after several years in which its reputation has been destroyed through the deletion of completed films and sending filmmakers’ work straight to streaming without minimal consultation.
Flowervale Street is said to be a 1980s-set “thrill-ride” shot using IMAX-approved cameras. Hathaway and McGregor will play parents with Stella and Christian Convery – who has also been added to the cast – likely to play their kids. We’ll bring you more as we hear it..
