Moving in the Stranger Things orbit, it’s not unusual that Natalia Dyer, aka Nancy, ends up being drawn into the world of Stephen King: Variety reports that the actress will join the cast of the sequel to 1408, still helmed by director Mikael Håfström. Among the new additions are her and Elijah Wood, joining a portion of the original cast two decades after the first cinematic chapter, adapted from a short story by the American author: a claustrophobic nightmare in a haunted hotel room, filled with grotesque situations.
The 1408 sequel involves Natalia Dyer and Elijah Wood, reuniting John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson
It wasn’t entirely a given that a sequel to Mikael Håfström’s 1408 with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson would come to fruition: in 2007 it was a box office hit worldwide, pulling in around 133 million dollars on a budget of 25 (Box Office Mojo), so there would have been sense in riding the wave at that time. The follow-up is arriving only now, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bluestone Entertainment, Spyglass Media Group and Frank Mayor, with a screenplay written by the same Håfström in collaboration with Mark Verheiden, drawing once again from Stephen King’s 1999 short story (in the collection Everything’s Eventual, 2002). It’s not yet known which roles Natalia Dyer and Elijah Wood will portray, but Dyer is expected to lead the story, with Wood serving as her ally. Notably, the original actors John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson will be involved as well, though they appear to play secondary characters in a plot that remains unrevealed (they are therefore not considered canon with the two alternate endings of the first film, where Cusack’s character dies).
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