Pledge on film sequel

Cast members Deniz Akdeniz and Caitlin Stasey from the first movie. Source: Supplied

Amy Harris and Joel Christie, The Daily Telegraph, report

New life has been breathed into the sequel to the surprisingly successful Aussie blockbuster Tomorrow When The War Began with producers promising cameras will roll early next year.

Considered dead in the water 12 months ago, Tomorrow When The War Began 2 - based on a series of books by John Marsden - is still searching for a director after the original auteur Stuart Beattie dropped out.

But executive producer Matthew Street said a "great screenplay" exists and that production would eventually begin.

"(The sequel) is certainly not dead," Street said yesterday.

He said Aussie actor Kieran Darcy-Smith had written a "great screenplay" based on Marsden's original book series. The news has come as a surprise to the cast however, with starlet Phoebe Tonkin saying she had not heard about plans for the project.

"I would have loved to have done a sequel but I don't think it's going to happen," she said.

"A bit of time has passed now.

"I don't think there will be one, or at least not with the original cast - which probably is a shame.

"But that could always change, you never know."

Her doubts echoed sentiments shared earlier by co-star Caitlin Stasey, who said she feared the original cast of the movie would be too old to play the teenage characters in the original by the time a sequel came about.