“It Follows” Horror Sequel “They Follow ”in the Works with Original Film's Director and Star

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'It Follows' starred Maika Monroe as a college student who is perpetually stalked and hunted by a mysterious monster

<p>Eugene Gologursky/Getty</p> Maika Monroe on Oct. 6, 2022

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Maika Monroe on Oct. 6, 2022

It Follows is getting a sequel!

On Monday, Neon announced that it is developing a sequel to the 2014 horror hit It Follows, which starred Maika Monroe as a college student who is stalked by a mysterious entity that never stops pursuing its victims.

"It’s everywhere," Neon wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "THEY FOLLOW. The long-awaited sequel to the modern horror classic IT FOLLOWS from David Robert Mitchell. Coming soon."

No plot details or casting have been announced for the upcoming sequel beyond Monroe, 30, whose character Jay Height survived the original movie.

It Follows' story revolves around Jay learning that the film's monster will hunt her after she has sex with her boyfriend, who reveals that the entity's targets are passed on via sexual intercourse.

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<p>RADiUS-TWC/ Courtesy Everett</p> Maika Monroe in 'It Follows'

RADiUS-TWC/ Courtesy Everett

Maika Monroe in 'It Follows'

The movie made for filmmaker David Robert Mitchell's second feature film, after 2010's The Myth of the American Sleepover. It premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and ultimately made $21 million worldwide against a roughly $1 million budget upon its release in 2015, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

They Follow expects to film in 2024, according to multiple reports concerning the film's announcement. Though no plot details have been revealed, Neon executive Tom Quinn suggested in a 2015 interview with Entertainment Weekly that a sequel could involve the film's characters searching for the monster's origin.

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<p>Eugene Gologursky/Getty</p> Maika Monroe on Oct. 6, 2022

Eugene Gologursky/Getty

Maika Monroe on Oct. 6, 2022

“I don’t want to give away too much, but we’ve thought about it," Quinn, who was co-president of It Follows' distributor Radius-TWC at the time, said. “Flip the title,” he added. “There’s so much you could do.”

Monroe herself told PEOPLE in 2015 that the film's premise stemmed from Mitchell's own "nightmares."

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<p>RADiUS-TWC/ Courtesy Everett</p> Maika Monroe in 'It Follows'

RADiUS-TWC/ Courtesy Everett

Maika Monroe in 'It Follows'

"When he was a kid, it was a recurring dream that he had. It just stuck with him," she shared of It Follows' mysterious monster at the time. "It was this continuous dream of something following him; sometimes it would be his family or someone he didn’t know. It got to the point where he was like, 'I should make a movie out of this.' "

In the years since It Follows, Monroe has appeared in films like Hot Summer Nights (2017), Honey Boy (2019), Brothers by Blood (2020) and alongside Jamie Foxx in this year's God Is a Bullet, among other movies.

They Follow will make for Mitchell's first project as a writer and director since 2018's Under the Silver Lake, a mystery movie that costarred Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher Grace.

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