Kevin Bacon will star in "Summoner," an Amazon MGM horror thriller in 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," which 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. Melissa Russell, Carl Hampe, and John Schoenfelder are also executive producers.
Shooting this fall, "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".
Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick recently directed and starred in the horror-comedy project "Family Movie" alongside their children, Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon.
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