Kevin Bacon to star and produce new thriller You Should Have Left

27 March 2018

Kevin Bacon will star in and produce the new supernatural thriller 'You Should Have Left'.

Kevin Bacon

The 59-year-old 'Footloose' star is teaming up with David Koepp and Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions to adapt the 2017 book of the same name by German author Daniel Kehlmann, The Hollywood Reporter say.

Koepp has adapted the book and is set to helm the new movie which is being slated to start production this year.

The book tells the story of a screenwriter who holes up in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter in order to work on a sequel to his big hit.

But however, like Stephen King's classing 'The Shining' - which was adapted by Stanley Kubrick back in 1980 - the writer begins to lose his mind.

The book - which was written in first-person - has been praised for its twists and scares.

However, the movie adaptation will change the original story and will feature a wealthy man with a younger wife and a six-year-old child, instead of the screenwriter.

Their marriage is filled with mistrust and suspicion and while vacating in a remote location, things may not be all they seem as everything may or may not be obeying all the physical laws of the universe.

It was reported that Bacon brought the novel to Koepp - who worked with the actor in the 1999 thriller 'Stir of Echoes'.

Recently Bacon's wife Kyra Sedgwick revealed she cast him in her first movie to generate money for the project.

Sedgwick made her directorial debut with Lifetime TV film 'Story of a Girl' and though she is delighted with her spouse's portrayal of gay diner owner Michael, she admitted she had more practical reasons for getting him on board with the project.

She said: "I always wanted Kevin to be in it to play Michael. I just thought it was a great role for him and the truth is, when we were trying to make it as an independent feature, we were trying to raise money and I asked him if he would be interested in playing that role -- not because I thought he would be brilliant, but frankly because he would get the movie made.

"He loved the part. He said he thought it was the best part in the movie. It's a special, excellent part -- he's never played a role quite like that before."