{"id":568770,"date":"2026-03-27T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568770\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:05:11","slug":"lights-out-2-in-the-works-with-new-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568770\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Out 2 in the Works With New Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNew Line has once again brightened up to the idea of a sequel to its 2016 supernatural horror hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lights\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lights_1\" data-tag=\"lights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lights Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Warner Bros. division has hired up-and-comer Connor Osborn McIntyre to write the screenplay for the sequel, which has been on and off again on the development track over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOriginal producer Lawrence Grey is returning as producer while Eric Heisserer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/david-f-sandberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-f-sandberg_1\" data-tag=\"david-f-sandberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David F. Sandberg<\/a>, who respectively wrote and directed the movie, will also produce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdditional producers on the roster include Ben Everard and Lotta Losten. Atomic Monster, the banner run by James Wan, also one of the original movie\u2019s producers, is a producing as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLights Out was the directorial debut for Sandberg, who went on to direct Annabelle: Creation and Shazam!, and was based on his original short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe feature told of a ghost entity that lives in the shadow and dark recesses of buildings as it haunts a family. Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Gabriel Bateman and Alexander\u00a0DiPersia\u00a0starred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPlot details or take for Lights Out 2 are being kept in the dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLights Out was a massive money maker for New Line, grossing $149 million worldwide on a production budget of less than $5 million.\u00a0New Line has taken stabs at developing a sequel with Heisserer and Chris Borrelli\u00a0penning scripts over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Connor-Osborne-McIntyre-photo-by-Miles-North-EMBED-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"666\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tConnor Osborn McIntyre<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMiles North<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMcIntyre\u00a0is a scribe on the upswing. He wrote Animals, the upcoming dramatic thriller that Ben Affleck directed and stars in alongside Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, and Kerry Washington. And his original script American Midnight was featured on last year\u2019s Black List of best unproduced screenplays and sold to Netflix with Vertigo Entertainment and Spooky Pictures producing. Previously, his original screenplay Copenhagen sold to Makeready and Fifth Season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe is repped by CAA, Kaplan Perrone Entertainment, and Yorn Levine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Line has once again brightened up to the idea of a sequel to its 2016 supernatural horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,90906,134,279643,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-568770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-david-f-sandberg","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lights-out","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}