The Walking Dead Star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has booked his next film role in producer Joe Carnahan’s new horror flick.
Felixdescribed as “Super 8 meets Child’s play“, will see Morgan play the role of a worried father as his child becomes involved with an Annabelle-esque doll.
The film will follow young Charlie, played by The Haunting of Bly Manorby Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, as he and his best friend try to make their own movie and become “great Hollywood directors”.
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Inspiration for their film is quickly found in Félix, “an old ventriloquist doll” that Charlie’s father (Morgan) finds among his late mother’s belongings.
But as the doll becomes the antagonist of Charlie and Jimmy’s movie, it sets off “an increasingly sinister and disturbing chain of events” that could prove Felix has a mind of his own.
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Felix – will be directed by John Kissack – will be produced by Carnahan alongside Fargoby Jayson Therrien and Kissack.
“We couldn’t be happier to reunite with Joe Carnahan after the success of Hulu’s boss level starring Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo,” said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser.
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Morgan will also soon star in the most recent Walking Dead spin-off in six episodes, Isle of the Deadwhich will follow Maggie and Negan as they travel through a post-apocalyptic Manhattan.
The actor recently revealed his shock at the early announcement of the spin-off.
“I guess we don’t need to die,” he joked. “Spoiler alert, folks. Sorry! I still don’t know why we announced this already. It was a bit of a shock to me.”
The Walking Dead season 11 airs on AMC in the United States and STAR on Disney+ UK.
