Octavia Spencer to Return for ‘Ma 2’ Horror Sequel in Development at Blumhouse

Don’t make maine portion alone! We’re celebrating because Octavia Spencer is group to return arsenic nan title characteristic successful a sequel to nan 2019 horror-thriller “Ma,” which is now successful improvement astatine Blumhouse.

No different talent is attached astatine this point, and immoderate crippled specifications are being kept nether wraps, but nan film will beryllium a follow-up to head Tate Taylor’s revenge scary film, which earned much than $60 cardinal astatine nan worldwide container agency but successful nan consequent years has generated countless memes and made Spencer’s characteristic 1 of her astir memorable roles. Blumhouse precocious staged its “Halfway to Halloween” festival, astatine which “Ma” proved to beryllium a instrumentality favorite.

“Ma has proven to beryllium a societal arena since its merchandise successful 2019, pinch fans eagerly embracing nan movie and Octavia’s iconic capacity arsenic Ma. Ma likes to opportunity ‘don’t make maine portion alone,’ truthful we’re thrilled Octavia will subordinate america again for a 2nd round,” said Jason Blum, Founder and CEO pinch Blumhouse.

“Ma” stars Spencer arsenic a lonely female who befriends a group of teenagers aft allowing them to statement astatine her house. She’s dubbed “Ma” by nan group and quickly becomes 1 of nan friends, regularly starring ragers. But arsenic she gets clingier and much intense, nan teens commencement to fishy their host’s intentions.

Blumhouse announced nan news arsenic portion of a typical property arena it held for nan first clip called The Business of Fear. In it, panelists Jason Blum, Blumhouse President Abhijay Prakash, Alayna Glasthal, Director of Creative Production for Atomic Monster, and scary expert and writer Stephen Follows looked astatine nan authorities of nan scary manufacture and really nan genre has continued to turn successful fame moreover arsenic different genres person agelong since peaked.

Follows successful nan position collapsed down really scary has evolved to nan constituent that conscionable saying a movie is “horror” is acold excessively constrictive of a definition, and Follows and Blumhouse polled 2,000 respondents successful a investigation study to place 24 different sub-genres wrong horror, specified arsenic survival, slasher, psychological thriller, monster, and galore much that possibly haven’t seeped into nan taste lexicon. For their money, “Ma” fits into nan “Revenge” sub-genre.

It’s been a infinitesimal since we’ve seen Spencer connected nan large screen. She starred successful 2022’s vacation drama “Spirited” for Apple TV+, but she’ll adjacent beryllium seen successful head Stephanie Laing’s “Tow” and is successful pre-production connected “The Heart,” which is nan caller movie from Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. She’s besides appearing successful nan animated “Smurfs” movie coming later this year.