As the cameras start to crank and the horror begins the build for Host director Rob Savage, he's adding more cast members to his Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman. David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu and Vivien Lyra Blair are all now aboard the movie.
They follow Chris Messina and Sophie Thatcher, who were announced earlier this month.
King's tale originally appeared in a March 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine before it was collected in his 1978 collection Night Shift. The story follows a man named Lester Billings who becomes convinced that a nightmarish creature has been creeping from his kids' bedroom closets to kill them. While he's worried that he might be going crazy, and he consults a psychiatrist, Billings' terror continues. The story has long been one of his works that King has allowed filmmakers to adapt via a non-commercial, non-exclusive $1 option deal, and it has been adapted several times, notably into a short in 1982.
The presence of Savage gives us real hope for this one – we're fascinated to see what he'll do let loose with a bigger budget and more time, and he's shooting the movie now in New Orleans. The Boogeyman will debut on Hulu in the US and Disney+ here next year.
And while you wait for that, a reminder that Savage's follow up to Host, DASHCAM, will land in the UK this summer.