They Follow | It Follows sequel will start filming in early 2025 says Maika Monroe

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Returning star Maika Monroe has praised David Robert Mitchellā€™s script for It Follows sequel They Follow, and says itā€™ll start filming early next year.


As announced last year, writer-director David Robert Mitchell and star Maika Monroe are reuniting for They Follow ā€“ a sequel to the dreamily effective 2014 horror, It Follows.

Monroe will therefore reprise the role of Jay Height, the Detroit teenager menaced by a supernatural presence that passes from host to host like a venereal disease. To date, all weā€™ve heard about the sequel is a tagline: ā€œItā€™s everywhere,ā€ which suggests that the entity from the original might be about to spread further afield.

In an interview with IndieWire, published ahead of her latest film, Longlegs, Monroe has talked excitedly about They Follow. The script is (close your ears, kids) ā€œso fucking good,ā€ she says.

“I just know that David wouldn’t do a sequel if it wasn’t going to be incredible,ā€ Monroe said, ā€œand the script is so fucking good. I’m obsessed. I’m just so excited to step into playing Jay again and just where you find her, it’s going to be great.”

Monroe also added that They Follow will start filming in early 2025, which likely means the sequel emerge late next year or perhaps in 2026.

The timing makes sense, given that Mitchell began production on Flowervale Street ā€“ a secretive genre film produced by Bad Robot. Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, little is known about it other than itā€™s being shot with IMAX-approved cameras and that itā€™ll be a ā€˜thrill-rideā€™ set in the 1980s. There have been some rumours that dinosaurs will figure in its plot somewhere.

Filming got underway in Atlanta, Georgia in March and concluded on the 4th June. When shooting wrapped earlier this month, Anne Hathaway took a selfie of her and her young co-stars ā€“ Christian Convery, Maisy Stella and Jordan Alex Davis ā€“ with Hathaway covered in fake blood and grime. Have they all narrowly avoided the attention of some dinosaurs, or something else?

Weā€™ll have to wait and see; Flowervale Street is currently set for release on the 16th May 2025. By then, David Robert Mitchell will likely be busy making They Follow.

More as we get it.

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