The Boy arrived in early 2016 as a fairly interesting horror movie, headlined by Lauren Cohan who was then the fastest rising star of The Walking Dead. We thought the film was sort of okay, and while it made a decent $64 million bang for STXfilms’ $10 million budget buck, a sequel – barring a straight-to-DVD one – was not expected. Well, we’re getting one anyway.
Katie Holmes has signed on to star in The Boy 2, with original director William Brent Bell set to reprise his duties, working off a script by returning original writer Stacey Menear.
The first film introduced us to Greta (Cohan), hired by an elderly couple as a live-in caretaker in a creepy English estate known as Heelshire Mansion, where she was also expected to “babysit” a porcelain doll named after their late son, Brahms. After a few bumps in the night, Greta discovers that the real Brahms is actually living inside the walls, wearing a porcelain mask to cover his hideous face. Oh, and he’s a dangerously psychotic.
The Boy 2 will see Holmes play the matriarch of a young family who has the misfortune of moving into Heelshire Mansion, where creepy doll-faced Brahms is still secretly squatting. Things will get weirder when the woman’s young son discovers Brahms, and strikes up a bizarre friendship.
The Boy 2 is an interesting return to movie headlining for Katie Holmes, who recently banked appearances in films such as Ocean’s Eight (uncredited), Logan Lucky and Dear Dictator alongside a major role in The Kennedys: Decline and Fall and a run on Ray Donovan. She is, of course, historically known for her 1998-2003 TV run on Dawson’s Creek and as Christopher Nolan’s original Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins.
We’ll keep you updated on The Boy 2 as news arrives.