Katie Holmes is set to star in The Boy 2 for STXfilms, a division of STX Entertainment and Lakeshore Entertainment.

The follow-up to 2016's The Boy, which starred Lauren Cohan and Rupert Evans and grossed $68 million worldwide, will see Holmes fill the role of Liza. Genre filmmaker William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside) will return to direct The Boy 2 after he first helms the Rupert Friend-starrer Separation.

Cameras are set to start rolling on The Boys 2 in Victoria, British Columbia, in early 2019. The horror thriller centers on a young family moving into an estate, where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend, an eerily lifelike doll he calls Brahms.