Source: Variety

Rob Lowe will star in the sequel STIR OF ECHOES: THE DEAD SPEAK, to be produced and financed by Lionsgate, reports Variety.

Ernie Barbaresh wrote the script for and will direct the horror thriller, which begins shooting in mid-July in Toronto.

Pic is a followup to the 1999 Kevin Bacon starrer "Stir of Echoes," which was written and directed by David Koepp and based on a Richard Matheson novel.

Story revolves around a soldier who returns home from a tour of duty in Iraq only to be haunted by visions of the dead.