"El Sellem Wel Teban" Sequel Is Coming to Streaming Soon

The sequel to the 2001 romance-drama film “El Sellem Wel Teban: Leab Eyal” (“The Ladder and The Snake: Child's Play”) is coming to streaming.

The film, which opened in theatres on November 11, will be available soon on the "Yango Play" streaming platform.

“El Sellem Wel Teban: Leab Eyal” stars Amr Youssef, Asmaa Galal, Dhafer L’Abidine, Maged El Masry, Nicole Saafan, and more.

Tarek Alarian, the film’s original director and co-writer, returned to helm the sequel.

Alarian directed the pic from a script written by Ahmed Hosny.

The film is touted to be entirely different from the first film, both in terms of visual style and character development.

It reunites Galal and Youssef for the second time after 2024's "Welad Rizk 3: El Qadya" as well as witnesses the fourth collaboration between Alarian and Youssef after the Welad Rizk franchise.

The sequel was announced at the 7th edition of the El Gouna Film Festival in October 2024.

The original film starred Hani Salama, Ahmed Helmy, Hala Shiha, Ragaa Al-Geddawy, Tarek El Tilmisany, and more. Alarian directed the pic from a script he co-wrote with Mohamed Hefzy.

“El Sellem Wel Teban” is centered around Hazem, a reckless young man who fails at being a good husband and father. His life changes when he meets Yasmin, and they both face issues that force them to fall in love with each other.

The film went through many stages during its preparations, during which Hefzy wrote the script in English.

Al-Aryan was very enthusiastic about the project, which was different from the films available at that time. At one point, Ahmed El Sakka was nominated for the work, but he refused to star in it because he was not convinced by its plot.

In the sequel, love and ambition intertwine as Ahmed (Amr Youssef), a creative architect, and Malak (Asmaa Galal), a driven entrepreneur, struggle to reconcile who they’ve become with who they were together. When distance and new relationships—like Malak’s rekindled connection with Amir (Dhafer L’Abidine)—test their bond, both are forced to confront lost versions of themselves and the choices that shaped their paths.

Upon release, the film achieved great success at the box office, topping the highest revenues in the history of cinema in Saudi Arabia, while its total revenues in Egypt and the Arab world exceeded EGP 500 million.