Kevin Bacon is set to star in Summoner, an Amazon MGM horror thriller on which Jeremy Slater, the longtime genre writer behind Mortal Kombat II and Umbrella Academy, will make his directorial debut.
Horror filmmaker Andy Muschietti as well as Barbara Muschietti, and Russell Ackerman will produce via their Nocturna banner. Nocturna was behind horror movie They Will Kill You that was released by Warner Bros. in March
The script, written by Slater, follows an exorcist names Jefferson Haddock (Bacon), who is called into an isolated witness protection property to deal with a terrifying demon, accidentally unleashing a force that threatens to end him and everything around him.
Dan Kagan, one of the producers of horror hit Longlegs, is executive producing. The feature will shoot this fall.
Slater is one of the bold-faced screenwriter names when it comes to geeky genre material in both movies and TV. One of the writers of the Josh Trank Fantastic Four, Slater earned creator credits on Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight and Fox’s The Exorcist as well as Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. He was a co-creator on Netflix’s long-running super hero series Umbrella Academy, based on the Dark Horse comic, and worked on Kombat II, which opened in May.
Summoner is a rare starring feature turn for Bacon who, for the last several years, has made it a habit of stealing roles and steadying movies with his presence. He appeared in prestige mini-series Sirens and toplined the Amazon Prime Video series The Bondsman. He and wife Kyra Sedgwick recently directed and starred in the horror-comedy project Family Movie alongside their children, Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon.
Bacon is repped by MGMT and Johnson Shapiro. Slater is repped by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone, and McKuin Frankel.
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