IT FOLLOWS Sequel Officially Announced; Director David Robert Mitchell & Star Maika Monroe Will Return

IT FOLLOWS Sequel Officially Announced; Director David Robert Mitchell & Star Maika Monroe Will Return

The long-awaited sequel to 2015 horror hit It Follows is officially in development, with director David Robert Mitchell and star Maika Monroe set to return...

By MarkCassidy - Oct 30, 2023 05:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Movies

2015's It Follows is widely viewed as one of the scariest movies of the past decade, and fans have been hoping for a sequel announcement for years. Now, THR has confirmed that a second film is officially in the works.

Titled They Follow (prepare for a barrage of "woke" jokes), with director David Robert Mitchell and star Maika Monroe set to return.

Plot details are still under wraps, but one possible outline that was reportedly floated a few years ago would focus on the unnamed Entity's victims turning the tables on their shape-shifting pursuer and tracing the origin of the curse.

The original had an unusual, but rather terrifying premise, and dealt with a sexually-transmitted curse which could only be passed on to someone else via intercourse. Once afflicted, the person would be followed by phantoms only they could see, and if caught, killed in some pretty horrific ways.

Mitchell conceived the idea for the film while reflecting on recurring dreams he had in his youth about being followed.

"I didn't use those images for the film, but the basic idea and the feeling I used. From what I understand, it's an anxiety dream. Whatever I was going through at that time, my parents divorced when I was around that age, so I imagine it was something to do with that."

Neon is co-producing the sequel along with Good Fear Content. Mitchell will produce with Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear, with the first film's producers David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Rebecca Green and Laura Smith also expected to return.

No release date has been announced, but the project is set to shoot at some point next year.

"After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself."

It Follows also stars Keir Gilchrist as Paul Bolduan, a friend of Jay, Kelly, and Yara; Olivia Luccardi as Yara Davis, Kelly's friend; Lili Sepe as Kelly Height, Jaime's sister; Daniel Zovatto as Greg Hannigan, Jay and Kelly's neighbor; Jake Weary as Hugh / Jeff Redmond, Jaime's former boyfriend and a target of the entity; Bailey Spry as Annie Marshall, one of the entity's victims; Debbie Williams as Mrs. Height, Jaime and Kelly's mother and Ruby Harris as Mrs. Redmond, Jeff's mother.

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marvel72
marvel72 - 10/31/2023, 9:30 AM
The movie was really good but doing a sequel? Not sure if it would work or is needed.
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