Landman star James Jordan has been tapped for a role in They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s long-anticipated Neon sequel to his critically acclaimed 2015 horror film It Follows, Deadline reports.
So far, all that’s known about the sequel is that it takes place a decade after the original film.
Maika Monroe (It Follows, Longlegs) has returned to star alongside newcomer Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice). The cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Justine Lupe (Succession), Anna Mirodin, Jayne Taini, Michael Gandolfini (Beau Is Afraid), Tom Pecinka, Melora Walters (The Butterfly Effect), Ben Krieger, Natalie Shinnick and Jan Hoag.
It Follows was snapped up by Radius-TWC after premiering to rave reviews at Cannes in 2014. The psychological horror film stars Monroe as Jay Height, a college student who, after a sexual encounter, becomes the target of an unstoppable supernatural entity. As the entity takes the form of random people, slowly but relentlessly stalking her and her friends through the Detroit area, she grapples with the fact that she will only be able to escape the curse she has inherited by passing it on to someone else through sex.
Regarded as one of the best horror films of the 2010s, It Follows grossed around $23M against a reported budget of a little more than a million, launching Monroe toward stardom and making a studio director of Mitchell.
Neon reps worldwide rights to They Follow and will release the film in U.S. theaters.
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