British rising actors Jeremy Irvine (WAR HORSE) and Phoebe Fox (TVs SWITCH) will headline Hammer’s horror sequel THE WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH. TV veteran director Tom Harper is at the helm of the follow-up tale and picks up 40 years after the terrifying events at the abandoned abode of Eel Marsh House. The original sleeper smash, directed by EDEN LAKE’s James Watkins, was based on Susan Hill’s hit novel and stage play, starring Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, as a widowed father struggling with the dark spirits at the haunted mansion. It had previously been adapted into the acclaimed 1988 TV movie.
The new plot will be set in the middle of World War II, with the government seizing the eerie environment as a place to house the evacuated children during those turbulent times. Of course, they’d all wished they had stayed and took their chances in the harrowing city strife. Jon Croker, a story editor on the first film penned by Jane Goldman, wrote the sequel screenplay.
Source: Deadline
