Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried's Psychological Thriller The Housemaid Gets a Sequel After Big Box Office Numbers

She’s coming backmost location for different shift. The Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried led intelligence thriller The Housemaid has been a coagulated container bureau occurrence — truthful naturally, Lionsgate has greenlit a sequel.

The 2nd movie volition beryllium titled The Housemaid’s Secret and volition beryllium based connected the 2nd caller successful the best-selling publication trilogy by Freida McFadden. According to a property merchandise from the studio, the movie has been successful improvement for the past fewer months and volition spot accumulation commencement “later this year.” Screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine volition instrumentality to constitute the sequel adaptation.

Most importantly, Sweeney and costar Michele Morrone volition reprise their roles and manager Paul Feig volition instrumentality to helm the project. Sweeney volition besides service arsenic enforcement shaper alongside McFadden.

The Housemaid, which is based connected the archetypal caller successful McFadden’s series, grossed $133 cardinal since it was released connected December 19 and has proven itself to beryllium a commercialized deed for the workplace frankincense far. The bid wide has sold implicit 12 cardinal copies, truthful it’s wide there’s a immense appetite there.

“It’s wide from some the planetary container bureau and from the outpouring connected societal media that audiences person responded powerfully – and audibly – to the wholly unsocial and genuinely theatrical acquisition of The Housemaid and privation to cognize what happens next,” Adam Fogelson, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair, explained successful a statement.

“We believed successful these stories from the precise beginning, and we are beyond excited to bring the adjacent section of Millie’s communicative to beingness on-screen successful collaboration with our outstanding originative partners Todd, Paul, Laura, Carly, Alex, and Sydney,” helium added. “The Housemaid’s Secret is different wildly thrilling publication successful Freida’s bid that has captivated readers worldwide, and we look guardant to translating it into a likewise rousing and riotous moviegoing experience.”

Paul Feig besides shared his thoughts connected bringing the 2nd publication to life. “It’s been thrilling to spot audiences astir the satellite autumn successful emotion with The Housemaid and the unthinkable enactment of our talented formed and crew,” helium said successful his ain statement. “We’re fortunate that Freida McFadden has already extended Millie’s travel connected the page, and that we get to enactment with Rebecca Sonnenshine and Lionsgate to bring this adjacent communicative to audiences.”

Of people there’s nary wired connected a merchandise day conscionable yet but it seems sometime successful the second fractional adjacent twelvemonth makes the astir sense.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.