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Paramount has won nan authorities to a caller characteristic movie group successful nan beingness of Longlegs, Deadline has learned.
Cage will prima successful and nutrient nan follow-up film. Osgood Perkins, who wrote and directed nan original movie starring Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, Kiernan Shipka, Blair Underwood and more, will pen nan script, direct, and produce.
The film’s producers are Brian Kavanaugh Jones of Range Media Partners; Perkins and Chris Ferguson, through their institution Phobos; and Dave Caplan under his C2 banner, which originated nan authorities to nan property.
Details are being kept nether wraps, but nan characteristic will beryllium group successful nan aforesaid beingness arsenic nan original. The first movie delivered nan best original scary opening year-to-date erstwhile it deed theaters successful July 2024. It besides marked nan best-ever commencement for a Neon movie astatine $22.6M.
Perkins, who wrote and directed nan $128 cardinal grossing Longlegs, precocious wrapped accumulation connected The Young People, starring Nicole Kidman, Lola Tung, and Nico Parker.
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Monroe has since starred successful nan movie adjustment of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling caller Reminders of Him alongside Tyriq Withers.
Perkins is represented by CAA, Untitled, and lawyer Jonathan Shikora of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark. He and his producing partner Ferguson and their accumulation banner Phobos person a first-look woody pinch Neon, nan Tom Quinn-run 7-year aged distribution company.
Cage is repped by WME, Stride Management, Patrick Knapp astatine GGSSC.
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