Hot on the heels of its World Premiere at the 2022 Overlook Film Festival, XYZ Films have announced the acquisition of director Mark Meir's Faustian morality tale, The Summoned.
The distributor is planning a North American release of the film in July of 2022.
"All I can say is that I felt summoned to work on The Summoned," James Emanuel Shapiro, XYZ Films' Executive Vice President of US Distribution, notes. "Mark, Yuri, and Angela created something smart and scary, and I can't wait to show this to as many people as possible!"
In the film, young Elijah (J. Quinton Johnson) attends a self-help retreat with his rockstar girlfriend Lyn, unaware that the enigmatic doctor who runs the estate has summoned him here to settle a generations-old supernatural debt.
Directed by Meir, who makes their feature debut, with a script by Jewish-Ukrainian writer Yuri Baranovsky, The Summoned's powerful cast also features Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network), Salvador Chacon (FX's "Mayans M.C."), Angela Gulner (Netflix's "GLOW"), and Freddy Douglas (Hallmark's "The Odyssey").
A Wicked Myth and Happy Little Guillotine Studios co-production, the picture is produced by Baranovsky, Meir, Gulner, Justin Mark Morrison, and Dashiell Reinhardt.
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