We’ve been anticipating the original horror film “Summoner” from Hollywood screenwriter Jeremy Slater (“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire”) for a while now, who was most recently behind “Mortal Kombat 2” and has been enlisted to tackle a script for “Mortal Kombat 3.” The project that sees Slater in the director’s chair has now landed veteran actor Kevin Bacon (“Mystic River”) to take a lead role in the pic at Amazon MGM Studios with a fall shoot planned.
As the report mentioned, a brief synopsis for “Summoner” has the film following “an exorcist named 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.” It certainly sounds like this could echo back to Bacon’s underrated 1999 paranormal flick “Stir of Echoes,” Ti West‘s “MaXXXine,” the classic Joel Schumacher horror thriller “Flatliners,” Paul Verhoveven‘s “Hollow Man,” got his start as a young actor in the original “Friday the 13th,” and had dealt recently with demons/undead with his series “The Bondsman.”
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Slater, if you’re not aware, was hired as the original showrunner/head writer for Marvel Studios‘ “Moon Knight” series before exiting over creative differences with the directing team, and helped to adapt Netflix‘s comic book series “The Umbrella Academy.” We have to assume that “Summoner” is going to harken back to Slater’s time on the Fox series iteration of “The Exorcist” (Mike Flanagan and Scarlett Johansson are behind a new feature for Universal Pictures).
In the project coverage from The Hollywood Reporter, they’re adding that both Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti are set as producers via their production banner Nocturna, after recently being behind the HBO Max series “Welcome To Derry,” expanding upon the Pennywise/”IT” mythology, moving past the original work from Stephen King that was adapted by the duo for the big screen in a two-part feature film.
A second season for “Welcome To Derry” is in the works (with Season 3 ideas being kicked around) and Muschietti after directing “The Flash” had been tasked by DC Studios to helm their Batman film “The Brave & The Bold” (said to be still in the works, and was expected to see Bruce Wayne and his young son Daiman being paired up for the first time in live-action, and would feature the DCU version of the Caped Crusader).
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