When Kevin and Matthew McManus conceived of Redux Redux, a lean and mean revenge thriller about a grieving mother named Irene (Michaela McManus) who travels infinite parallel universes to seek revenge against the killer of her daughter, the multiverse was barely a glimmer in Marvel Studios’ eye. Everything Everywhere All at Once was still six years away from winning Best Picture at the Oscars, and general audiences couldn’t even conceive of “multiverse fatigue.”
It was a decade ago when the sibling directing duo, best known for their work on Netflix shows Cobra Kai and American Vandal, first began working on Redux Redux. And in the years since, the multiverse has gone from novel idea to next great thing in Hollywood to tired gimmick. “We rode that whole thing,” Matthew McManus tells Inverse.
