Mia Goth will reprise the role of X‘s villain Pearl in an upcoming prequel movie titled Pearl, A24 had originally teased in the post-credits of Ti West‘s slasher, with a trailer for the top secret prequel movie attached to X exclusively in theaters. That trailer never made its way online, but A24 is teasing this afternoon that a trailer for Pearl will be released online tomorrow!
While you wait, you can check out Mia Goth on the official Pearl poster art below, which is being advertised by A24 as “the X-traordinary origin story” of the character first seen in X.
The brand new prequel movie is set in 1918, decades prior to the 1970s-set X, which was released in theaters back in March of this year. Goth played the dual role of Pearl, a senior citizen, and Maxine, the film’s final girl. The film ends with Maxine killing Pearl, who along with her husband Howard had been brutally slaying Maxine’s friends throughout the movie.
Ti West had indicated earlier this year that the world of X may eventually even expand to include a third movie, but at this time we’ve heard no official confirmation of that.
Pearl, meanwhile, was already filmed around the same time as X!
West told Bloody Disgusting earlier this year, “Part of the idea of this movie that’s cool to me is that there is a bigger thing to it all. What I can tell you about Pearl, because we’ve already made it and it’s done, is it is very much a story about Pearl. So you will learn more about her. It is stylistically very different from X. You do not need one without the other, but they enrich each other in a specific way. In the way that X is affected, let’s say by 1970s horror independent filmmaking and Americana cinema, Pearl is influenced by a very different era of filmmaking. If we do the third one, it will be affected by a different type of cinema.”
In addition to Mia Goth, the second movie’s cast includes David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro, and the film was written by West and Goth.
