{"id":754872,"date":"2026-06-23T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754872\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:49:08","slug":"kevin-bacon-to-star-in-summoner-horror-film-from-amazon-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754872\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon To Star In &#8216;Summoner&#8217; Horror Film From Amazon MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kevin-bacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kevin-bacon\" data-tag=\"kevin-bacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> has inked a deal to star in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/summoner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_summoner\" data-tag=\"summoner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Summoner<\/a>, a new Amazon MGM horror film from writer-director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeremy-slater\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeremy-slater\" data-tag=\"jeremy-slater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Slater<\/a> that will mark his directorial debut, Deadline can confirm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA theatrical title for the studio,\u00a0Summoner\u00a0follows Jefferson Haddock (Bacon), who is called into an isolated witness protection property to deal with a terrifying demon, unleashing a force that threatens to end him and everything around him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNocturna\u2019s Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Russell Ackerman will produce, with Dan Kagan executive producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost recently, Bacon exec produced and starred in the Blumhouse action horror series\u00a0The Bondsman, also appearing in Netflix\u2019s limited series\u00a0Sirens. He also was seen starring in Michael J. Weithorn\u2019s rom-com\u00a0The Best You Can, reuniting on screen with his wife Kyra Sedgwick for the first time in 20 years. Bacon and Sedgwick also recently directed and starred in the horror-comedy\u00a0Family Movie\u00a0alongside their children, Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon. That title premiered at this year\u2019s SXSW Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSlater is a writer-producer known for work on titles like Netflix\u2019s\u00a0The Umbrella Academy, Marvel\u2019s\u00a0Moon Knight\u00a0for Disney+, and\u00a0The Exorcist, which ran for two seasons on Fox. Most recently, he penned New Line\u2019s\u00a0Mortal Kombat II, which grossed $126 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYesterday, we were first to report on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/exposure-story-erika-vazquez-siena-butterfield-sells-to-warner-bros-1236964314\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros. landing the short story \u201cExposure\u201d<\/a> by Erika V\u00e1zquez &amp; Siena Butterfield, with Andy and Barbara Muschietti boarding to produce the erotic thriller feature for Double Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTHR\u00a0was first to report on\u00a0Summoner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon has inked a deal to star in\u00a0Summoner, a new Amazon MGM horror film from writer-director Jeremy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30862,64,63,134,361604,77521,344,361605],"class_list":["post-754872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-slater","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-movies","tag-summoner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}