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Bill Hader Turns Real-Life Divorce Into Horror Movie

Hader will write, direct, and star in the new film about a divorced dad.

Bill Hader will bring some personal experience to his feature film debut.

The Saturday Night Live alum will write, direct, and star in They Know, a horror film that follows a divorced dad, played by Hader, who becomes suspicious that his ex-wife is “secretly dating a mysterious man who is having a strange influence on their children,” according to Deadline.

Hader, 47, shares three daughters with his ex-wife, writer‑director Maggie Carey: Hannah, 15, Harper, 13, and Hayley, 10. He and Carey were married from 2006 to 2018 before they split amicably, with Hader citing irreconcilable differences in his 2017 divorce filing.

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The fictional former couple Hader will invent for the original story, in collaboration with his Barry collaborator Duffy Boudreau, may not fare as well, the project’s description teases.

The horror movie will be Hader’s first feature-length project and follows his four-season, Emmy-winning HBO dark comedy series Barry, for which he won three DGA awards for directing.

Hader dated comedian and fellow divorcée Ali Wong, 43, for almost three years before splitting in January. A source told People of the breakup, “It was too difficult to make the relationship work with Ali’s upcoming stand-up tour and Bill’s various film and TV projects this year.”

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Eboni Boykin-PattersonEntertainment Reporter

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