Chad Michael Murray to star in 'Haunting' sequel

LOS ANGELES  - Chad Michael Murray, Abigail Spencer, Katee Sackhoff and Emily Alyn Lind will star in "The Haunting in Georgia," a horror sequel that starts shooting later this month in Baton Rouge.

The four play the members of the real-life Wyrick family, beleaguered by ghosts and a terrifying mystery that haunts their new home.

Murray ("One Tree Hill") portrays Andy Wyrick, the blue collar, no-nonsense husband to Spencer's Lisa Wyrick, a young mother struggling with horrifying visions, a curse she shares with her wayward sister Joyce (Sackhoff) and now fears has been passed on to her young daughter Heidi (Lind).

Tom Elkins will direct the Gold Circle Films project, which will be released in North America by Lionsgate.

"Haunting in Georgia's" predecessor, 2009's "The Haunting in Connecticut," scared up the No. 1 spot at the box office on its opening weekend. Gold Circle saw it had the makings of a franchise on its hands and set about finding another true story it could tackle.

Spencer played Don Draper's schoolteacher galpal in Season 4 of "Mad Men" and will be seen in next year's big-budget tentpole "Cowboys and Aliens." Sackhoff is best known for playing Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica and currently appears on CSI. Lind appeared in "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Enter the Void."