‘It Follows’ Sequel ‘They Follow’ With Maika Monroe Launches At AFM Via Neon
deadline.comNeon is launching sales this week at AFM to the It Follows sequel, They Follow. Filmmaker David Robert Mitchell is back to helm and write, with Maika Monroe reprising her role as Jay Height.
A 2024 production start is being eyed. Neon will co-produce the film alongside Good Fear Content. Mitchell serves as a producer with Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content and the original producers of It Follows — David Kaplan, Erik Rommesmo, Rebecca Green and Laura Smith.
Neon CEO originally handled It Follows at Radius, which was a cult theatrical pic grossing $15M stateside in 2014. Mitchell broke into the film industry with the 2010 coming-of-age drama The Myth of the American Sleepover, which had its world premiere at South by Southwest.
It Follows, his second pic, earned a Critics Choice Awards nomination for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie. In 2018, he wrote, produced and directed black comedy/mystery Under the Silver Lake starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough.
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