Sequel To Sydney Sweeney’s Field Workplace Hit Introduced

After Sydney Sweeney’s latest movie The Housemaid proved to be a success on the field workplace, a sequel is now formally within the works. The psychological thriller relies on Freida McFadden’s novel, which has bought tens of millions of copies since its 2022 launch.

Regardless of arriving in theaters on the identical day as Avatar: Hearth and Ash, the movie adaptation of The Housemaid has grossed a formidable $133 million to date on the field workplace.

Lionsgate simply introduced that The Housemaid’s Secret, the sequel to The Housemaid, will start manufacturing in 2026. The manufacturing firm additionally revealed that the following installment had already been in improvement for a couple of months earlier than this official announcement was revealed to the general public. A launch date has not been introduced but.

Carly Elter, Alex Younger, McFadden and Sweeney will function government producers alongside producers Todd Lieberman, Paul Feig and Laura Fischer, with Rebecca Sonnenshine returning because the screenwriter.

Whereas not official simply but, Lionsgate famous that The Housemaid director Feig will seemingly helm the sequel as effectively.

Sweeney, who performs the titular housemaid Millie Calloway, and Michele Morrone, who performs groundskeeper Enzo Accardi, are additionally in talks to return.

In an announcement, Lionsgate Movement Image Group Chair Adam Fogelson mentioned that “audiences have responded strongly” to the “completely distinctive and actually theatrical expertise” of The Housemaid. The chief known as The Housemaid’s Secret “one other wildly thrilling ebook in Freida’s sequence.”

“It’s clear from each the worldwide field workplace and from the outpouring on social media that audiences have responded strongly – and audibly – to the completely distinctive and actually theatrical expertise of The Housemaid and need to know what occurs subsequent. We believed in these tales from the very starting, and we’re past excited to deliver the following chapter of Millie’s story to life on-screen in collaboration with our excellent inventive companions Todd, Paul, Laura, Carly, Alex, and Sydney. The Housemaid’s Secret is one other wildly thrilling ebook in Freida’s sequence that has captivated readers worldwide, and we sit up for translating it right into a equally rousing and riotous moviegoing expertise.”

Feig added that he and the remainder of the crew are “fortunate that Freida McFadden has already prolonged Millie’s journey on the web page,” they usually all cannot wait to work on the sequel.

“It’s been thrilling to see audiences world wide fall in love with The Housemaid and the unimaginable work of our proficient solid and crew. We’re fortunate that Freida McFadden has already prolonged Millie’s journey on the web page, and that we get to work with Rebecca Sonnenshine and Lionsgate to deliver this subsequent story to audiences.”

In The Housemaid, Millie is employed to be a live-in housemaid for the Winchester household. Simply when she thinks she’s escaped the trauma from her previous, she realizes Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar) are holding on to stunning secrets and techniques and scandals that threaten to upend her new life.

Together with Sweeney, Seyfried and Sklenar, The Housemaid additionally stars Michele Morrone, Elizabeth Perkins, Indiana Elle, Megan Ferguson, Ellen Tamaki, Amanda Pleasure Erickson, Alaina Surgener, Mark Grossman, Hannah Cruz, Alexandra Seal, Don DiPetta, Brian D. Cohen and Lamar Baucom-Slaughter.

Critics and audiences have responded positively to the movie, which is Licensed Contemporary on Rotten Tomatoes with a 73% rating from critics and a 92% on the Popcornmeter (viewers rating). Seyfried’s efficiency, particularly, has obtained a lot reward from critics.

McFadden already has a blueprint for the filmmakers to comply with. After she revealed The Housemaid in 2022, she wrote two sequels. The Housemaid’s Secret was launched in 2023, with The Housemaid is Watching following a yr and a half later.

Collectively, the trilogy has bought greater than 12 million copies, with The Housemaid’s Secret staying on the NYT bestseller lists for 65+ weeks. Probably because of the success of the movie, all three books are at present on the NYT bestseller lists; The Housemaid is sitting at No. 1 on the Mixed Print & E-Guide Fiction and Paperback Commerce Fiction lists.