The FX series ended in December 2024. Within roughly the same window, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi quietly started writing. It is the next chapter of a franchise that has been building, format by format, for over a decade. The project is called We’re Wolves, it is a sequel to the 2014 mockumentary original.
A Decade Later, the Werewolves Finally Get Their Movie
What We Do in the Shadows premiered in 2014 as a micro-budget New Zealand mockumentary, directed by Clement and Waititi on a reported budget of approximately NZD $1.6 million. It followed four vampire flatmates in Wellington and became one of the most beloved horror-comedies of its era, cult first, then quietly essential.
The FX series (2019–2024) took the mockumentary format to Staten Island with an entirely different cast and ran for six seasons before its finale aired on December 16, 2024. We’re Wolves is not that show’s continuation. It is a sequel to the film, the 2014 world, the 2014 mythology, the characters who were there from the beginning.
Those characters, in this case, are the werewolves. Specifically: Anton’s pack, who appeared throughout the original as bumbling, enthusiastic comic counterpoints to the vampire leads, governed by strict pack rules and deeply committed to not swearing. They had limited screen time and became fan favourites anyway. Promoting them to leads is the one thread from the 2014 film that neither TV spinoff ever pulled on, which makes them the cleanest possible entry point for a cinematic return.
Clement has confirmed the writing is underway in no uncertain terms. According to Jemaine Clement via Bloody Disgusting;
We’re writing it, actually. We started writing. For a long time, we were just talking about it. Now, we’ve started it. Very recently.
He was equally direct at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, telling Nexus Point News;
We’re writing another What We Do in the Shadows movie, like a sequel to the movie.
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The 2027 Timeline and What It Tells Us About the Franchise’s Ambitions
Read the timeline carefully, because this is where expectations need calibrating. According to Clement at Bloody Disgusting;
At the pace we’re going, 2027, for sure. It helps to be in the same country, for Taika and I to be in the same country.
Production, casting, and distribution come after. This film is not imminent. But the shift from years of conversation to active writing is a real threshold, and Clement publicly discussing it at Annecy suggests enough confidence to say so out loud.
The geographic detail Clement flagged is small but telling. Waititi is one of the most in-demand directors working right now; getting both men in the same country long enough to write is the primary logistical constraint. That is not how studio-driven sequels get made. It is how two longtime collaborators return to a world they built, on their own schedule, when the conditions finally align.
We’re Wolves would be the first cinematic return to this world since 2014. Eleven years. The franchise kept moving through television the entire time, but the format where it started has been sitting untouched. That gap is about to close.
What We’re Wolves Means for the Shadows Universe
The timing of this announcement and the FX finale might not be coincidental. The television chapter formally closed in December 2024, and Clement has already indicated his FX relationship is finished; he told Nexus Point News directly that he felt it was time to move on from that chapter.
We’re Wolves is what comes next. Not a TV continuation, not an animated spinoff (that was discussed and declined), but a return to the single-film mockumentary format where the whole thing began.
The werewolf pack is the right vehicle for it, strategically. The FX series even codified the shared-universe nature of this world, there were cameos from the 2014 film’s Viago and Vladislav, establishing direct continuity.
But Anton’s pack? Untouched. A viewer who has never seen the FX series or Wellington Paranormal can walk into We’re Wolves with nothing but the 2014 film and be exactly where they need to be. A decade-long fan gets the reunion. That is genuinely hard to engineer, and the fact that this is the chosen angle suggests the creative decision was deliberate.
What is confirmed right now: a script in progress, a 2027 completion estimate, and two creators with a decade of demonstrated commitment to this world across multiple formats and continents. What does not exist yet: production timeline, confirmed cast, distributor, release date. No spoilers because there is nothing to spoil. For horror-comedy fans who have been waiting since 2014 for the cinematic side to move again, the script starting is the story.