Warning: Major SPOILERS lie ahead for Whistle!Though its leads may have survived its terrifying sound, <em>Whistle</em>‘s post-credits scene has set up many other characters to face their deathly futures.

Helmed by The Nun‘s Corin Hardy, the film centers on Chrys Willet, played by Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Dafne Keen, a quiet teenager who moves to a new town and finds herself welcomed into a group of misfits at the local high school. Upon discovering an ancient Aztec death whistle that they believe conjures the dead, they realize it actually summons their future deaths to hunt them down, leading to a grizzly series of deaths that the group must find a way to stop.

Ahead of the movie’s wide release, ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley interviewed Corin Hardy and Sophie Nélisse to discuss Whistle. When asked about the movie’s post-credits scene, in which a new teen character starts to blow the whistle in a full high school auditorium, the director confessed “it was too good to not tease” the chances of a sequel on a bigger scale than the first.

Saying that whether it hints at the entire crowd being in danger “depends [on] what you think,” Hardy went on to reveal that this post-credits twist was actually written “to take place in the school canteen,” only for him to change it as he felt “it needs to be the maximum audience possible“:

Corin Hardy: It made me laugh a little bit to contemplate what might happen just after that happens. If you know the mythology and what’s going to happen to 400 of them, that would make an interesting movie in its own right. I think the mythology lends itself to more stories. If we got the chance to tell them, it would obviously be very cool to continue telling Whistle stories.

Nélisse went on to express her excitement about the Whistle sequel setup in the post-credits, particularly as she feels that her and Keen’s characters will have a better chance to “save more people” after Chrys and Ellie survived the ordeal the first time. However, she does acknowledge that there will be “a lot of pressure on their shoulders now,” to which Hardy humorously revealed the part of the scene that was cut regarding Nélisse’s character:

Corin Hardy: What you didn’t see is the cutaway where Ellie grabs two pairs of earplugs and shoves them into their ears.

Having been affected by the whistle’s death curse after it was blown at the party, Chrys and Ellie are the only two survivors come the Whistle ending. Much like the Final Destination franchise, they find the way to escape their demise at the hands of their future selves is to die and come back to life, which they only narrowly do as Ellie gives Chrys mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after drowning her, and Ellie’s curse is passed to Percy Hynes White’s Noah after he shoots her and touches her blood.

Despite the seemingly happy conclusion, in which Chrys and Ellie have successfully begun a romantic relationship, Mikayla Kong’s Asha is seen now in possession of the death whistle, mysteriously sitting in her locker. The Whistle post-credits scene sees her getting ready to play the high school’s anthem on her violin in front of a full auditorium, only to pull out the whistle and blow it, much to the dismay of Chrys and Ellie, who fail to stop her from the crowd.

Should Whistle indeed get a sequel, it now has a number of ways to expand the potential franchise. The most obvious route would be to explore the fallout of the large high school crowd now being cursed by the whistle, potentially centering on Chrys and Ellie trying their best to help everyone through it the same way they survived. Considering they survived their ordeal compared to similar characters in the Final Destination or Smile franchises, it would bring a major flip to the formula of a curse hunting down victims.

One of the other potential options would be for Hardy and writer Owen Egerton to branch away from the pair and explore the whistle’s reach beyond the central town in Whistle. Whether it be a prequel offering a little more backstory about the eponymous item or a follow-up spinoff that sees someone affected by the curse attempting to pass it on in hopes of breaking free from it, there are various options for a new film.

Ultimately, as Hardy notes, it will come down to how Whistle performs whether it gets a sequel. Going into Super Bowl weekend, the movie is only releasing in 1,200 theaters and early projections are in low single digits of millions, which isn’t entirely bad. However, with a narrowly fresh 60% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it will need strong word of mouth for an increase in coming weeks, especially against Scream 7. Plus, with creative and producing teams behind it yet to make sequels for any prior films, it’s unclear what financial heights they’re looking for Whistle to achieve before greenlighting a follow-up.