{"id":306887,"date":"2026-02-19T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306887\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:14:10","slug":"they-know-bill-hader-will-write-direct-and-star-in-horror-movie-from-his-own-original-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306887\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They Know&#8217; &#8211; Bill Hader Will Write, Direct and Star in Horror Movie from His Own Original Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bill Hader has directed many episodes of his series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Barry<\/a>,\u201d he hasn\u2019t yet been in the director\u2019s chair for a feature film. But that will change with They Know, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/bill-hader-to-direct-they-know-mrc-horror-film-1236729444\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reports that Bill Hader will write, direct and star in the upcoming horror movie They Know, based on an original story Hader created with \u201cBarry\u201d\u00a0collaborator Duffy Boudreau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">They Know centers on a divorced dad (Bill Hader) who grows suspicious that his ex-wife is secretly dating a mysterious man who is having a strange influence on their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">MRC is the studio financing the feature, which goes into production this Spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">Bob Graf and Bill Hader will produce via Hanarply, with Alyssa Donovan co-producing.<\/p>\n<p>In front of the camera, Bill Hader of course made his mark on the horror genre as Richie Tozier in Andy Muschietti\u2019s IT: Chapter Two, the adult version of the Losers\u2019 Club character.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more on Bill Hader\u2019s horror movie They Know as we learn it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Bill Hader has directed many episodes of his series \u201cBarry,\u201d he hasn\u2019t yet been in the director\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[144399,93,61,60,270,144400],"class_list":["post-306887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bill-hader","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-they-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}