Sosie Bacon Joins Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in MGM+ Horror Series ‘The Black Tapes’
Sosie Bacon has signed onto the MGM+ supernatural horror series ‘The Black Tapes’, based on the popular podcast.
Who’s smiling now?
Sosie Bacon (pictured above in Smile), that’s who. Variety reports she’s joined Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones, Mama) in the MGM+ supernatural horror series The Black Tapes, based on the popular podcast.
Bacon played the incredibly unfortunate star of Parker Finn’s Smile. Horror fans will also soon see her in Kevin Bacon’s Family Movie.
John Rogers (Leverage) serves as showrunner. Podcast creators Terry Miles and Paul Bae are writing the adaptation alongside Rogers, with production scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2027.
Coster-Waldau plays Dr. Richard Strand, a psychiatrist whose own past holds secrets. He joins scientist Alex Regan (Bacon) in investigating supposedly supernatural events, from possessions and hauntings to unexplained disappearances. Their efforts to disprove these cases expose an occult world and a conspiracy centuries in the making.
The podcast launched in 2015 and has since amassed more than 60 million downloads. Its journey to television has been a long one: we covered an earlier adaptation in development at NBC back in 2018, but that version never reached the pilot stage.
Rogers, an early fan of the podcast, says keeping its creators involved will give the adaptation room to explore beyond the original story.
