Original writer/director Eli Craig had a recent interview where he offered a little more insight into what happened with the proposed sequel and even revealed that they were pursuing a television series that would've followed the events of the movie. Here's what he had to say: "Honestly, Tucker and Dale 2 has died more deaths than the college kids in Tucker and Dale. We've had so many versions that have almost got off its feet or, for one reason or another, have gotten killed. It really does set us back that people can't look at the box office, the actual box office, of the movie." Adding... "It's always been a struggle, and then when we do set it up, and we get all the pieces together, it gets killed somehow. We almost did a TV show with it that was on TNT/TBS, and you'll be happy to know that David Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema [laughs], came in and put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker and Dale as we were about to go to series, and just cancelled all production." 

He briefly details how we would've seen the return of original actors Tyler Labine (Dale) and Alan Tudyk (Tucker) for the show, saying: "The TV show was more like — it's not going to exist anymore — but it was more like Tucker and Dale, but detectives. Detective Tucker and Dale, like, stupidly trying to figure out what's happening in a world where they're always getting it wrong and people are dying around them [...] It was Alan and Tyler, and it was...yeah. [Resigned shrug] What can you say?"

He ends the interview in a more hopeful note: "There's a part of me that thinks it could be the first and last movie I ever make. Maybe I'll be moving along on a walker with Tucker and Dale and we're like, 'We're making this!' I've never completely let go of the idea we'd make a sequel. And part of the reason people want to see a sequel is because it's set up for it. 'Tucker and Dale,' when I wrote it, there were these elements I wanted to follow, like Chad is still alive, Allison and Dale's story. So I always wanted to do a sequel, but Hollywood is a slayer of great ideas. But stay alive, fans! Because there's always a possibility." (5/11/25)

This project has been in talks for almost a decade and supposedly even went into development at some point, but according to stars Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine in a 2017 interview, the script (by an unknown writer) wasn't good enough and things just seemed to stall from there. The last "update" on the project came in a 2021 interview with actress Katrina Bowden (Allison in the original), who seemed interested in doing a sequel, if one were to happen. Here's what she had to say: "There was definitely talk of it, especially when it first came out, which was quite a while ago. Now at this point, I mean, I don't have any news. Do I think it could happen? It could, but it has been a long time. It would have to be the thing where it's like, flash forward 15 years and where are the characters now? And, I also will say, it would be so cool to do a follow-up on that movie but there is something really, really nice about not messing with something that turned out so good. So I would be very pleased if we were to do something, like a sequel of some kind with it. But I would be equally pleased that the movie lives on in all of its glory as it was. And, as for Allison, I mean, I don't know. I would like to believe that her and Dale lived, maybe, happily ever after with some things going wrong, but I would like to think that they were still together." (11/8/22)

This project is in talks at the moment as nothing official has been released on the development except for word from actors Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk, who have reportedly been contacted by the producers about pursuing a sequel, saying: "We have an outline, we’re honing in on who we want to write it, we really want to make another one." (3/28/16)

Leads Tyler and Alan Tudyk are ready to return once a proper script has been written and the studio is ready to move forward.

The sequel to 2010's Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.