James Jordan joins They Follow, Neon sequel to It Follows

James Jordan has joined the cast of They Follow, writer-director David Robert Mitchell's sequel to his 2015 horror film It Follows, Deadline reported on 28 September 2026. The new picture is a Neon film, which places it with the independent studio that will steer its cinema release.

The story takes place a decade after the events of the first film. A sequel, in plain terms, is a film that continues the characters or events of an earlier release.

Maika Monroe has returned to star alongside Naomi Ackie. Monroe led the original It Follows. Ackie now shares top billing with her on the next chapter.

The wider cast named so far is extensive. It includes Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Anna Mirodin, Jayne Taini and Michael Gandolfini. Tom Pecinka, Melora Walters, Ben Krieger, Natalie Shinnick and Jan Hoag are also listed among the ensemble.

Mitchell directed They Follow from his own script, so the same film-maker is responsible for the story on the page and the direction on the set. Casting was handled by Mark Bennett, the specialist who oversees the search for actors and the assembly of the company. That writer-director arrangement keeps authorship in one pair of hands from draft to shoot.

On the business side, Neon controls worldwide rights to the film, industry language for holding the authority to sell the picture and arrange where it is shown around the globe. The company will release the film in cinemas in the United States, the home market that sets the calendar for later viewing windows. Domestic, in industry use, means the United States and Canada together.

Outside the United States, Neon International is handling foreign sales, as noted by Deadline. Foreign sales is the standard process in which rights for individual countries are licensed to local distributors. Each of those distributors then organises its own cinema dates and marketing in its own territory.

Jordan comes to the production from television. He stars alongside Billy Bob Thornton on Landman, the Paramount+ series. He plays Dale Bradley, a petroleum engineer, as the show heads into its third season.

For fans, this means the shape of the follow-up is getting clearer. A former lead is back beside a new co-lead. A ten-year gap separates the two stories, and each new name fills out the world around that gap.