Have you ever thought that the horrors and anxieties of childhood piano recitals have just never been appropriately captured on film? Ever thought that Speed would have been better if Keanu Reeves had to keep playing “Chopsticks” rather than keep driving a bus? Then Grand Piano is definitely the movie for you. Written by The Last Exorcism 2 scribe Damien Chazelle and to be helmed by Spanish director Eugenio Mira, Grand Piano tells the tale of a formerly famous concert pianist who hasn’t performed in front of people for five years due to crippling stage fright. When he finally does work up the nerve to perform in front of people again, he sits down to his piano to find that a note has been left on his music sheet by a vile terrorist. You see, if he doesn’t play the most perfect concert that he’s ever played in his life, both he and his wife will be killed!

Yes, it’s true that The Last Exorcism wasn’t actually the last one, but The Penultimate Exorcism doesn’t have as good a ring to it. Regardless, the commercial success of the first film has warranted a follow-up, and that production has now found a writer to get itself off the ground. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Damien Chazelle will have the spirit move him to write the script. Chazelle is a new name, but he’s already hit the ground running with a thriller spec script called The Claim sold, another thriller spec called Grand Piano to be directed by Agnosia director Eugenio Mira, and his senior thesis – the gritty musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench – graduating from Harvard to premiere at Tribeca and get a limited release. The large question is whether or not faux-doc lightning can be captured twice. The ending of the first film had its own brand of ambiguities, but a sequel could also move away from the first world completely and follow another group. In fact, the field is wide open here which may play to its advantage. Or, it might end up feeling a lot like Paranormal Activity 2: The Reheated Repeat.