Bruce Almighty's screenwriters Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe have revealed that they penned an unmade sequel to the movie that would have seen Jim Carrey's character, Bruce Nolan, granted the powers of Satan.
The duo made this revelation during a recent interview with SyFy Wire, where they also disclosed that the sequel was aptly titled Brucifer.
According to Koren, he and O'Keefe had presented the Brucifer idea to producer Michael Bostick at the Bruce Almighty premiere. They also pitched the concept to Carrey who found the idea interesting and would have been up for reprising his role.
Unfortunately, when they eventually pitched the idea to Universal Studios several years later, it was shut down. The studio executives were not interested in another Bruce Almighty sequel given the fact that a few years earlier, their attempt at a spinoff titled Evan Almighty, had failed at the box office. Besides, they weren't convinced about the story and, as a result, refused to sign off on it.
Since Universal Studios binned the sequel, the film's co-writer Koren took the liberty to disclose the storyline. According to him, the plot involved Nolan losing his wife, which resulted in him losing his faith even though he had a personal encounter with God. However, instead of accepting his fate like every other person, Nolan threw his lot in with Satan who granted him the power to revive her. Nolan's wife, Grace, would have first returned as a zombie before eventually becoming herself.