It is well known that Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried's latest hit film The Housemaid is getting a sequel with director Paul Feig returning. As reported earlier, the sequel titled The Housemaid's Secret will be based on Freida McFadden’s second novel in the best-selling trilogy. Now, in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Feig has shared that he will start shooting the film later this year.
He confirmed that the cast and crew are "ready to go" for the sequel which will see both Sydney Sweeney and Michele Morrone reprising their roles. "The script is all finished, we're just doing a little bit of rewrites on it," he added, underlining that "new very exciting actors are coming in."
In The Housemaid, Sweeney stars as Millie, a woman who is trying to escape her past. She accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous – a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Elizabeth Perkins also stars in a key role in the film which has turned out to be a commercial success at the box office, earning over $300 million worldwide, becoming Sweeney's biggest box office hit.
Feig, who expressed his elation for the response to his film, said, "It's amazing. I mean, we're just about to hit $400 million worldwide with it, which is thrilling. I make my movies for audiences and to have a group experience and so to get this in the theatres and to have all these people showing up and having fun and filming themselves watching the movie having fun, that's how we're going to get the movie theatres back – give people a good time in the theatre."
For the sequel, Screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine is also returning to write the adaptation. Sweeney and McFadden are coming back as executive producers alongside Hidden Pictures’ Carly Elter and Alex Young. The Housemaid's Secret will be backed by Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Pretty Dangerous Pictures’ Feig and Laura Fischer.
