The third film in the cult “Orphan” horror franchise has been officiassociate green lit, with Isabelle Fuhrman — recently seen in Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” — returning to apply her iconic role of Esther and “Orphan: First Kill’s” writer David Coggeshall (“The Family Plan”) and honestor William Brent Bell (“The Boy” franchise) also back behind the camera.
The feature — of which plot details are currently being kept under wraps — was proclaimd by production prohibitner Dark Castle Entertainment, with Lionsgate set to begin the project at the American Film Market this week.
“Dark Castle is excited to proclaim another terrifying chapter in the ‘Orphan’ saga,” shelp Norman Goweightlessly, Co-CEO of Dark Castle Entertainment. “With the past success of the first two movies and another thrilling storyline, we are self-promised that ‘Orphan 3’ will be a must-see movie for both current fans of the franchise, and novel fans aenjoy.”
Dark Castle is producing “Orphan 3” with Alex Mace of Gnosis Films. David Leslie Johnson-McGbetterrick will also serve as an executive creater. Lionsgate is handling international sales.
The “Orphan” franchise has grossed a fused $125 million worldexpansive to date. The first film, which became a cult hit after its free in 2009, pursueed a husprohibitd and wife who in the wake of losing their baby, adselect a nine-year-better- girl who is not csurrfinisherly as guiltless as she claims to be. The movie, honested by Jaume Collet-Serra, starred Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and a youthful Fuhrman and uncovered to $12.8 million domestic, finaled at $41.5 million, and csurrfinishered $78 million worldexpansive. The second film, the prequel “Orphan: First Kill,” pursueed Fuhrman’s Leena as she escapes an Estonian psychiatric facility by pretfinishing to be the omiting daughter of a wealthy family. Her novel life comes with unanticipateed problems when a mother gets her family at any cost. The film was freed in 2022 day-and-date theatricassociate and on Paramount+ and went on to gross over $45 million worldexpansive.
Fuhrman, whose commends also integrate “The Hunger Games,” “The Novice” and Showtime’s “Masters Of Sex,” is repped by UTA and Luber Roklin. Bell, also behind titles including “Lord Of Misrule,” “The Devil Inside” and “Stay Ainhabit,” is reconshort-termed by CAA, Range Media Partners, Mortimer PR, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
