EXCLUSIVE: James Jordan, who stars alongside Billy Bob Thornton on Paramount+’s Landman, has been tapped for a role in They Follow, David Robert Mitchell’s long-anticipated Neon sequel to his critically acclaimed 2015 horror film It Follows, sources tell Deadline.
Reps for Neon declined to comment. Character details are being kept under wraps, as is the plot of the sequel. All that’s known thus far is that it takes place a decade after the events of the original film.
Maika Monroe has returned to star alongside newcomer Naomi Ackie. The cast also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Anna Mirodin, Jayne Taini, Michael Gandolfini, Tom Pecinka, Melora Walters, Ben Krieger, Natalie Shinnick and Jan Hoag.
Mitchell has once again directed from his own script. He’s also producing alongside Harvest Hill Entertainment’s Jake Weiner, Chris Bender of Good Fear Content, Northern Light Media Ventures’ Erik Rommesmo, FirstGen Content’s Mike D’Alto and Randal Sandler, Curious Gremlin’s Scott Aharoni and Sinan Eczacıbaşı, Kaplan Morrison’s David Kaplan, Rebecca Green and Laura Smith. Mark Bennett handled casting.
Neon reps worldwide rights to They Follow and will release the film in U.S. theaters. Neon International is handling foreign sales. Deals were negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers by Hayden Goldblatt of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Eugene Pikulin of Bruns Brennan Berry Pikulin Jacobs, Michael Weiss of Concentric Law, and Wifreddy Chiang of Baseline Media.
It Follows was snapped up by Radius-TWC after premiering to rave reviews at Cannes in 2014. The psychological horror film stars Monroe as Jay Height, a college student who, after a sexual encounter, becomes the target of an unstoppable supernatural entity. As the entity takes the form of random people, slowly but relentlessly stalking her and her friends through the Detroit area, she grapples with the fact that she will only be able to escape the curse she has inherited by passing it on to someone else through sex.
Regarded as one of the best horror films of the 2010s, It Follows grossed around $23M against a reported budget of a little more than a million, launching Monroe toward stardom and making a studio director of Mitchell. Pic’s cast also included Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe.
Best known for his turn as petroleum engineer Dale Bradley, right-hand man to Thornton’s Tommy Norris, on Paramount+’s hit drama Landman heading into its third season, Jordan is a clear favorite of co-creator Taylor Sheridan, who’s cast him in everything from Yellowstone and 1883 to Mayor of Kingstown, Those Who Wish Me Dead and Wind River. Currently, Jordan also stars in his series Lioness. Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Billings, an indie healthcare drama marking the directorial debut of actor Alexander Ludwig. He is repped by Elevate Entertainment and Jamie Freed Management.
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