{"id":2224988,"date":"2026-01-06T23:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224988"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:22:41","slug":"sydney-sweeney-eyeing-return-for-the-housemaid-sequel-paul-feig-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sydney-sweeney-eyeing-return-for-the-housemaid-sequel-paul-feig-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney Eyeing Return for \u2018The Housemaid\u2019 Sequel, Paul Feig to Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2858875\/\">Sydney Sweeney<\/a> looks set to star in and executive produce The Housemaid\u2019s Secret, the sequel from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0006881\/\">Lionsgate<\/a> for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27543632\/\">The Housemaid<\/a> now in development and with the studio eyeing the Euphoria actress in a starring role.<\/p>\n<p>The next film in the franchise, based on the second novel in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14768317\/\">Freida McFadden<\/a>\u2019s trilogy, will also be directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0082450\/\">Paul Feig<\/a>. Sweeney has already signed on to exec produce the sequel, and while there\u2019s no deal yet signed for her to star, Lionsgate is understood to be looking for her to reprise her role as Millie.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1086543\/\">Amanda Seyfried<\/a>, a co-star in The Housemaid, she too has an executive producer credit on the sequel. And her character doesn\u2019t appear in McFadden\u2019s second book, but the possibility of Seyfried appearing in the sequel is still a possibility, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1151586\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0786726\/\">Hidden Pictures <\/a>\/ <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1159267\/\">Pretty Dangerous Pictures<\/a> production&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Sweeney looks set to star in and executive produce The Housemaid\u2019s Secret, the sequel from Lionsgate for The Housemaid now in development and with the studio eyeing the Euphoria actress in a starring role. The next film in the franchise, based on the second novel in Freida McFadden\u2019s trilogy, will also be directed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2224988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Sydney-Sweeney-Eyeing-Return-for-\u2018The-Housemaid-Sequel-Paul-Feig.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224990,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224988\/revisions\/2224990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}