EXCLUSIVE: Anna Popplewell and Katelyn Rose Downey have signed on to star alongside Taissa Farmiga and Storm Reid in New Line’s ‘The Nun 2’
, which came in as the highest-grossing film out of theThe original film watched as a priest with a haunted past was sent by the Vatican along with Sister Irene , a novice on the threshold of her final vows, to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun. Corin Hardy directed from a script by Gary Dauberman, which was based on his story written with James Wan.
Details as to the sequel’s plot are being kept under wraps, though Farmiga will reprise her role as Sister Irene. And though unconfirmed, we hear that Popplewell will play Marcella, a school teacher at St. Mary’s School in France and a widowed, loving mother to 10-year-old Sophie — presumably to be played by Downey.