Kevin Bacon Set to Star in a SHINING-Like Horror Film Called YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT
Kevin Bacon is teaming back up with the director of Stir of Echoes, David Koepp, for a new horror thriller project called You Should Have Left. The film will be an adaptation of a book by Daniel Kehlmann and the story is akin to Stephen King's The Shining.
The story follows a screenwriter who is writing a sequel to his big hit film in a remote house in the Alps with his wife and daughter and in the process he starts to lose his mind. The book was written in the first-person and was praised for its mind-bending and hall-of-mirrors scares.
Bacon, who picked up the rights to the film, will take on the role of the screenwriter and Koepp will write and direct it. In their take, "the story will jettison the screenwriting occupation and instead focus on telling the unsettling tale of a wealthy man with a younger wife and a six-year-old child. Mistrust and suspicion characterize their marriage while they are in a remote location that may or may not be obeying all the physical laws of the universe."
I'm a big fan of Kevin Bacon and I loved what he and Koepp did with Stir of Echoes, so I'm looking forward to seeing how this new horror film project turns out. Here's the description of the book:
This passage is from the first entry of a journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel. It is the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany—a house that thwarts the expectations of the narrator's recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. He is eager to finish a screenplay for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him—and within him.
What do you think about Bacon and Koepp taking on the film adaptation of this book?