Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick's Kids Are Working With Them on a Spooky Project
Families that scare together, stay together.
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Real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are keeping it in the family for their next project. The acting-producing-directing duo are working on a new comedy thriller titled Family Movie, and the husband and wife are aptly getting their own kids, Travis and Sosie, involved.
According to Variety, the family of four will all star in and produce—in conjunction with Mixed Breed Films and Norman Golightly at Dark Castle Entertainment—the upcoming genre-bending horror flick, which will be directed by Bacon and Sedgwick. The screenplay, written by Dan Beers, will follow "an eclectic but tight-knit family of filmmakers who suddenly find themselves in a real-life horror movie when a body turns up on the set of their latest low-budget slasher. As the production spirals comically out of control, they realize the only solution to keep filming is to cover up the murder, by any means necessary," per the outlet.
“There may not be a more compelling Hollywood family than the Bacons,” Dark Castle co-CEO Golightly said, per Variety. “We can’t wait to bring their unique dynamic to the screen and then wildly turn it on its head for audiences.”
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Both Bacon and Sedgwick's son Travis, 35, and daughter Sosie, 32, already have experience in the industry. According to Entertainment Weekly, Travis has composed the music for films, including Space Oddity, which was directed by Sedgwick. Sosie, on the other hand, has spent time in front of the camera, appearing in multiple episodes of HBO's Mare of Easttown and starring in the 2022 mystery horror movie Smile.
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In a 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kevin, who has been in several horror films himself, revealed that their family has bonded over the genre.
"We definitely have a fondness for it in our family," he said. "I wonder what it is, specifically. I think that for an actor, you're looking for things that have high stakes—and that's what horror gives you. It's always going to be a radical life-or-death situation."
