Writer-director Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage are teaming up again for a Longlegs sequel, now dated for January 2028. Update: Here’s a news snippet about a surprise development in motion picture filmmaking. Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage are re-teaming for a new feature set in the world of Longlegs. And according to Deadline, that new ... Longlegs sequel | Nicolas Cage and Osgood Perkins’ new movie due out January 2028
Writer-director Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage are teaming up again for a Longlegs sequel, now dated for January 2028.
Update: Here’s a news snippet about a surprise development in motion picture filmmaking. Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage are re-teaming for a new feature set in the world of Longlegs. And according to Deadline, that new movie – perhaps more a spin-off or even prequel rather than a sequel, if we’re being honest – is being released on the 14th January 2028.
Longlegs was an indie hit for Neon in 2024 – so much so that big Hollywood player Paramount has swooped in to make a deal with Perkins and Cage. It’s possible that Paramount has seen the success Warner had with Zach Cregger’s Weapons, and how Amy Madigan became its breakout, Oscar-winning star – so much so that she’s getting her own prequel.
Perkins may well be working on his own prequel about the Cage’s titular serial killer, not unlike Warner’s Gladys. There’s 18 months before that release date, though, so we’ll likely be hearing more from the production over the coming months.
Our original story follows…
15th April 2026: The prolific horror director Osgood Perkins is returning to the grimy serial killer world he set up in 2024’s Longlegs. Although it won’t be a direct sequel as such, the new film will again feature Nicolas Cage – though whether he’ll play the same freaky (and prosthetic heavy) role hasn’t yet been revealed.
An even bigger surprise: the Longlegs spin-off will be a studio film rather than an indie. Where the first film was put out by boutique distributor, Neon, the rights to the fledgling series have now been picked up by Paramount Pictures according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The outlet also describes the first Longlegs as “an out of nowhere hit”, though our recollection is that Neon put together an especially eye-catching marketing campaign for the horror-thriller, highlighting its air of dread without giving too much away (the character Cage plays was also kept tantalisingly out of view). That campaign positioned it as 2024’s scariest, must-see horror, and the gambit worked: Longlegs made $128m on a lean $10m budget.
Maika Monroe played Lee Harker, a rookie FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer. But the more she digs into the case, the more she suspects that there’s something supernatural going on…
A mixture of occult horror and 90s-style psychological thriller – Silence Of The Lambs is a clear reference point – Longlegs showcased Perkins’ skill as a genre filmmaker. Its atmosphere is off-kilter and disturbing, particularly in the film’s first half.
Longlegs was also a somewhat personal film for Cage and Perkins; both have said in interviews that they mined their own traumatic experiences as children when they were making it. Cage said that he based his character on childhood memories of his mother; Perkins, similarly, said that “When I set into Longlegs, that was the core truth: a mother can lie, and she can lie out of love.”
Time will tell whether the pair will mine their histories to similar effect for their new film, said to be “set in the Longlegs universe.”
Perkins has made a number of horror films since that 2024 hit; black comedy The Monkey, supernatural horror The Keeper, and coming up next, The Young People, due out later in 2026.
More on the new Longlegs as we get it.
