‘The Strangers 2’ Moving Forward With Director Marcel Langenegger
Posted on Monday, January 26th, 2015 by Angie Han
The Strangers will come knocking again. Relativity is moving forward on The Strangers 2, a follow-up to Bryan Bertino‘s 2008 horror hit. Marcel Langenegger (Deception) is directing this time around, from a script by Ben Katai (Chosen). More on The Strangers 2 after the jump.
TheWrap reports Langenegger is currently in negotiations to direct The Strangers 2 this spring. The plot follows a family preparing to send their troubled teen daughter off to boarding school. They decide to take one last family trip to a mobile home park run by the girl’s uncle.
The family’s vacation turns into a nightmare when the teenage kids arrive to discover the dead bodies of their aunt and uncle. Worse, it seems The Strangers — a trio of killers known only as Man in the Mask, Pinup Girl, and Dollface — are still around and eager to play with the rest of the family.
The original The Strangers was a hit, grossing $82 million worldwide on a budget of just $9 million. That one starred Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman as a couple attacked in a remote vacation cabin by the Strangers. None of the actors from the original are confirmed to return as of yet.
A sequel was put into development not long after the first film’s success, with Laurent Briet slated to helm from a script by Bertino. But incarnation fell by the wayside, and this is the first major update we’ve had on The Strangers 2 in quite some time.
Langenegger is a Swiss filmmaker known for Deception, a 2008 thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and Michelle Williams. He’s currently prepping Latitude and Silver or Lead. The former is also by Relativity, and follows a family trapped on a cargo vessel lost at sea.
The Strangers 2 doesn’t yet have a release date, but assuming it hits the spring start date we can probably look for it in theaters sometime next year.
