{"id":307119,"date":"2026-02-20T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:09:07","slug":"bill-hader-sets-directorial-debut-they-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307119\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hader sets directorial debut, They Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years after he finished his brilliant HBO series Barry<\/a>, Bill Hader has finally announced the feature film follow-up that NoHo Hank-heads have been waiting for. Per Deadline<\/a>, Hader will co-write, direct, and star in They Know, a horror film about the nightmare of watching your ex-wife date. Expected to begin production in Los Angeles this spring and co-written by his Barry collaborator Duffy Bourdreau, the film sees Hader playing a divorced father who, according to the outlet, begins to suspect his ex-wife\u2019s mysterious new boyfriend of having a \u201cstrange influence\u201d on his kids. Hader, a divorced father in his own right, will likely mine his own experiences, insecurities, and fears as he did with Barry\u2019s\u00a0actor\u2019s journey. He was married to writer-director Maggie Carrie from 2006 to 2018, and the couple had three children together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hader has been talking about making a horror movie for years. In 2023, he told Deadline<\/a> that he wrote a project with Bourdreau, his hometown best friend from Tulsa. \u201cWe\u2019ve known each other since we were like 18, so you need that on set,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need your friend from Oklahoma who goes, \u2018Yeah, man. That sucks.\u2019 \u2018You should go again.\u2019 Or he watches a cut and is like, \u2018Well, that just seems corny, man.\u2019 You need that guy who really has no skin in the game, has seen as many movies as I have and has read more books than I have, and just acts honestly, but then comes up with great stuff. We wrote a movie that I\u2019d like to make at some point, which is kind of like what everybody usually does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, only a few months ago, he admitted to Ari Aster on the A24 Podcast<\/a> that his confidence was shaken after he tried to get a horror movie made after Barry ended. \u201cI had written a horror movie right after Barry wrapped, I didn\u2019t really take a break,\u201d he said. \u201cI kind of went right into writing this feature, and I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to make this feature.\u2019 I had a meeting with a big producer \u2013 actually, a very smart, lovely guy. I won\u2019t say who it was, but it\u2019s just not for him. His response to it was so bad. He went, \u2018This is so mean-spirit and horrible.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s a horror movie.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018But it\u2019s so disturbing and cynical.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Did you not see my TV show?’\u201d Was that horror movie They Know? We\u2019ll know if the movie turns out to be mean-spirited, disturbing, cynical, and horrible.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years after he finished his brilliant HBO series Barry, Bill Hader has finally announced the feature film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-307119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307119","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=307119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}