Maika Monroe Teases ‘It Follows’ Sequel Script Is “Bigger And Darker And More F***ed Up”
deadline.comA decade later, Maika Monroe has no plans outrunning her breakout role. The actress teased that her upcoming horror movie They Follow will be well worth the wait after she signed onto the sequel of 2014’s It Follows back in October, along with returning writer/director David Robert Mitchell. “David is brilliant.
I mean, he is brilliant,” she told Collider. “The whole movie transformed at that point. It was changing the game in the genre, and he wouldn’t ever make a sequel if he didn’t think it was going to top it. “He’s very specific, turns down so many… He just knows what he wants to do and what he wants to make.
I mean, at first I’m like, ‘Oh, a sequel? Where are we going to go here?’ And I read it, and it’s just so f***ing good. It’s so good.
I’m so excited.” She starred in the original movie as Jamie “Jay” Height, a teenage girl who is pursued by a supernatural entity that latches onto her after her first sexual encounter. “I think where you’ll meet Jay at this point is maybe not what’s expected, but it’s so cool,” she explained. “It’s just, of course, as everyone says for sequels, literally, though, is just bigger and darker and more f***ed up.
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