Sony has announced Don't Breathe 2 will be released in August 2021. The film is a sequel to the 2016 runaway horror hit Don't Breathe, starring Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, and Stephen Lang. Filmed under just a budget of $10 million, the film made over $150 million at the box office and received a 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
All of that success seems to have paid off now, as Sony announced that the sequel Don't Breathe 2 will be releasing on August 13, 2021. Fede Álvarez, who won the approval of horror fans with his twisted modern update of Evil Dead, will not be returning to the director chair. Co-writer and Álvarez's longtime collaborator, Rodo Sayagues, will instead be making his directorial debut with this one.
While fans of the original are hesitant that Álvarez's absence as director will hurt Don't Breathe 2, there's much to look forward to, not least because horror fans are starved for some good old-fashioned fright cinema. Despite most productions being forced to shut down, the film, shot in Serbia, carried on, with Lang confirming on his Twitter that he had wrapped his scenes for the sequel.
So far, only Lang is confirmed to return in Don't Breathe 2, reprising his role as the Blind Man. Likewise, plot details for the sequel have been kept under wraps. In the original film, three friends (Levy, Minnette, and Zovatto) break into the home of a blind veteran (Lang) to steal money they know to be inside the home. The trio is in for a rude awakening, though, when they realize that just because the man can't see doesn't mean he doesn't know how to fight back.
Source: Sony