Samara Weaving, Katherine Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and David Cronenberg star in Read Or Not 2: Here I Come. Here’s the new trailer. Update: After the wedding from hell comes the hangover. Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come takes place immediately after the bloody events of the 2019, with a returning Grace ... Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come | First trailer unveiled (pun intended – weddings and that)
Samara Weaving, Katherine Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and David Cronenberg star in Read Or Not 2: Here I Come. Here’s the new trailer.
Update: After the wedding from hell comes the hangover. Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come takes place immediately after the bloody events of the 2019, with a returning Grace (Samara Weaving) pitched into another fight for survival.
The horror sequel is due for release on the 10th April 2026 – and to get us in the mood, there’s a new trailer, which we’ve helpfully added below. There are more murderous posh people, more mullioned windows and a lot more guns – though this time, Weaving’s joined by Katherine Newton in this latest bloody outing.
The stakes have also been raised, with the aim this time appearing to be to topple the clandestine family that rules the entire planet. Here’s a synopsis, if you like sentences in italics:
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
…and last but not least, here’s the new trailer. We didn’t dream it: David Cronenberg really is in this.
Our original story follows…
22nd April 2025: What do Buffy, Frodo Baggins and the master of body horror have in common? Apparently, it’s the forthcoming sequel Ready Or Not 2, better known to its creators as Ready Or Not: Here I Come.
Already in production, the follow-up to the blackly comic 2019 horror thriller is still building up its impressive cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the latest additions include Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elijah Wood and legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.
They’ll be joining Ant-Man actor Kathryn Newton (who joined in March) and returning star Samara Weaving in the horror sequel, which is set to continue the story of Grace (Weaving) who suffers through one of the bloodiest wedding days imaginable. Filmmaking collective Radio Silence are back to direct, along with screenwriters Gary Busick and R Christopher Murphy. And while the first Ready Or Not told a fairly self-contained story, the sequel’s script is “an absolute f–ing banger” according to co-director Tyler Gillett.
Read more: Ready Or Not review
Also among the growing cast, we’re told, are Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell and Kevin Durand – the latter also having starred in Radio Silence’s 2024 horror, Abigail. The most fascinating addition, though – at least for this writer – is Cronenberg. Although best known as the director of such films as Videodrome, The Fly and A History Of Violence, he’s occasionally turned to acting in the past. He was singularly unsettling as a psychologist and masked killer in Clive Barker’s cult classic, Nightbreed, and had a small yet similarly effective role in the batty Jason X.
Will Cronenberg have a similarly memorable part in Ready Or Not: Here I Come, or will it be more of a cameo? We’ll have to wait and see; at the time of writing, a release date hasn’t been announced. We’ll let you know when one emerges.
