The directors who made a multiverse movie about a laundromat owner win Best Picture. Now they're doing it again. Maybe.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert—the Daniels, for those keeping score—confirmed their next project is a sci-fi action comedy filming this summer, targeting November 2027. Which means we're approximately 20 months from finding out if Everything Everywhere All at Once was a beautiful accident or the start of something.

Here's the question that matters: Can they do it twice? EEAAO shouldn't have worked. A $25 million indie with hot dog fingers and butt plugs and Jamie Lee Curtis with sausages for fingers became a cultural phenomenon, swept the Oscars, and made Ke Huy Quan cry on national television. It was anarchic and sincere and deeply weird in ways that Hollywood usually sands down to nothing.

So what happens when you give the Daniels a bigger budget, higher expectations, and the pressure of following up a Best Picture win? History suggests caution. Damien Chazelle followed La La Land with the divisive First Man. Barry Jenkins went from Moonlight to the ambitious but scattered If Beale Street Could Talk. Not failures, but not lightning-strikes-twice either.

But here's the optimistic take: the Daniels already proved themselves with Swiss Army Man, the movie about Daniel Radcliffe's farting corpse. They've been weird and brilliant for years. EEAAO wasn't a fluke—it was them finally getting the resources to execute their vision.

Sci-fi action comedy is broad enough to mean anything. Could be gonzo Guardians of the Galaxy energy. Could be cerebral vibes with jokes. Could be something nobody's thought of yet, which honestly feels most likely.