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Amid large container agency occurrence for The Housemaid, its Freida McFadden thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, Lionsgate is moving toward a 2026 accumulation commencement for a sequel, The Housemaid’s Secret, based connected nan 2nd caller successful McFadden’s bestselling trilogy.
The task has been successful improvement for nan past fewer months, pinch Sweeney eyeing to return to prima and exec produce, and co-star Michele Morrone besides looking to reprise. It’s expected that Paul Feig will return to nonstop from a book by Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted The Housemaid. Producers will see Todd Lieberman of Hidden Pictures, Feig and Laura Fischer of Feig’s Pretty Dangerous Pictures, and Hidden Pictures’ Carly Elter and Alex Young. McFadden will besides service arsenic an executive producer.
The movie will beryllium overseen by Lionsgate’s Chelsea Kujawa, who besides oversaw nan first movie and brought nan task into nan studio, alongside Maria Ascanio. Robert Melnik negotiated deals for nan studio.
“It’s clear from some nan world container agency and from nan outpouring connected societal media that audiences person responded powerfully – and audibly – to nan wholly unsocial and genuinely theatrical acquisition of The Housemaid and want to cognize what happens next,” said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Adam Fogelson. “We believed successful these stories from nan very beginning, and we are beyond excited to bring nan adjacent section of Millie’s communicative to life on-screen successful collaboration pinch our outstanding imaginative partners Todd, Paul, Laura, Carly, Alex, and Sydney. The Housemaid’s Secret is different wildly thrilling book successful Freida’s bid that has captivated readers worldwide, and we look guardant to translating it into a likewise rousing and riotous moviegoing experience.”
Said Hidden Pictures’ Lieberman, a shaper connected some Housemaid films, “We’re thrilled pinch nan reception and incredibly proud of this full squad from Freida McFadden to our partners astatine Lionsgate, and nan outstanding activity of Paul and Laura. Most rewarding has been seeing really powerfully audiences are connecting pinch nan film.”
Director Feig added, “It’s been thrilling to spot audiences astir nan world autumn successful emotion pinch The Housemaid and nan unthinkable activity of our talented formed and crew. We’re fortunate that Freida McFadden has already extended Millie’s travel connected nan page, and that we get to activity pinch Rebecca Sonnenshine and Lionsgate to bring this adjacent communicative to audiences.”
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