Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick will direct and star in Household Film, a horror comedy which can even star their kids.
Kevin Bacon’s subsequent film might be a real household affair. Selection studies that Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are set to direct Household Film, a horror-comedy through which they can even star alongside their kids, Travis and Sosie Bacon.
Primarily based on a screenplay by Dan Beers (Untimely), the movie follows “an eclectic however tight-knit household of filmmakers who instantly discover themselves in a real-life horror film when a physique turns up on the set of their newest low-budget slasher. Because the manufacturing spirals comically uncontrolled, they notice the one resolution to maintain filming is to cowl up the homicide, by any means mandatory.“
The Bacon household can even produce the mission for Combined Breed Movies alongside Norman Golightly at Darkish Citadel Entertainment. “There may not be a more compelling Hollywood family than the Bacons,” stated Golightly in a press release. “We will’t wait to deliver their distinctive dynamic to the display screen after which wildly flip it on its head for audiences.“
Sedgwick first spoke of the mission earlier this summer time, however stated the DGA won’t cooperate in terms of a joint credit score. “It’s very hard to get dual directing credit. If you promise the DGA that you will only direct together for the rest of your lives, then they’re more inclined to do it. But if not, they won’t,” Sedgwick stated. “We’ll determine it out. However I’m very strategic. I’m wondering if extra folks will see this if it’s a Kevin Bacon movie than a Kyra Sedgwick movie?“ Of the foursome, Sedgwick has probably the most directing expertise. She helmed House Oddity, starring Kyle Allen and Alexandra Shipp, in addition to TV motion pictures Story of a Woman and Women Weekend. She has additionally directed episodes of Grace and Frankie, Ray Donovan, Metropolis on a Hill, and Brooklyn 9-9.
Kevin Bacon, who obtained his begin on the very first Friday the thirteenth film, has beforehand defined why he enjoys the horror style a lot. “If a new horror film piques my interest, I’m front and center opening weekend … I like the experience, because when I go to a movie as a … consumer, I want to feel things. Whatever it is, I want to feel things deeply,” Bacon advised Looper in 2022. “You may really feel unhappy. You may get tears popping out of your eyes. You may chortle hysterically. You may bounce. You may get scared. You may get creeped out. You may stroll out of the theater with an uneasy feeling. These are emotions, and I like that. … I love to do horror as a result of the stakes are very excessive, and that implies that there’s great things to play. In life and dying conditions, these are good issues to play.“
