Following her tour-de-force work as Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson in TV’s The Closer, I don’t know whether I’ll be able to accept Kyra Sedgwick playing roles where she doesn’t have a Deep South accent, but it seems I’ll have a chance to find out soon, as Variety reports she’s taken a role in the Sam Raimi produced Dibbuk Box.
It was announced last week that Jeffrey Dean Morgan would play the lead role in the movie, a recently divorced father whose youngest daughter becomes strangely connected to an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. As the child’s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, the father senses a dark presence building, until he realises the box was built to contain a Dibbuk – a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host (Dibbuk’s originate in Jewish mysticism).
Sedgwick will play Morgan’s ex-wife and the mother of the little gile who’s got a spirit attached to her.
Danish helmer Ole Bornedal (The Subsitute) will direct from a script by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White (inevitably it’s said to be based on true events). Dibbuk Box is already set for a Halloween timed release on October 28th, so they’d better start shooting soon!