Forty-one years after having a run-in with Mrs. Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake in the original Friday the 13th (watch it HERE), Kevin Bacon has signed on to star in another horror movie set at a camp: the Blumhouse production that was formerly known as Whistler Camp. And since there’s nothing else to call it at this point, we still have to refer to it as Whistler Camp so everyone knows what we’re talking about.
Bacon will also be executive producing the film alongside Scott Turner Schofield. Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar are producing. Ryan Turek is the creative executive overseeing the film for Blumhouse.
The project formerly known as Whistler Camp is written and directed by John Logan. This is Logan’s feature directorial debut, but he has had great success as a writer. He created the television series Penny Dreadful, won a Tony for his play Red, wrote the book for the musical Moulin Rouge, got to write two James Bond films (Skyfall and Spectre), and earned Academy Award nominations for his screenwriting work on Gladiator, The Aviator, and Hugo. Whistler Camp, or whatever it ends up being called, is described as being
an LGBTQIA+ empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp.
Earlier this week, we learned that Theo Germaine, best known for playing the role of James Sullivan on the Ryan Murphy Netflix series The Politician, will be starring in the film.
Kevin Bacon previously worked with Blumhouse on the films The Darkness and You Should Have Left, as well as the Tremors TV series pilot that Syfy foolishly passed on. Bacon is always awesome, and I’m excited to see him in another camp-set horror movie.
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