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Eric McCormack to Star in Barricade Film, Perception Pilot

Eric McCormack
Eric McCormack

Emmy Award winner Eric McCormack will star in the upcoming WWE Studios film, Barricade, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Andrew Currie will direct the film, which features a screenplay by Michaelbrent Collings.

The film is a supernatural thriller about a psychiatrist and his two kids who are terrorized by unknown forces at a remote cabin.

In related news, McCormack will also star in and produce a pilot for TNT, entitled Perception. This project, which will co-star Rachael Leigh Cook, is about a neuropsychology professor who helps the FBI to solve complex cases.

McCormack was seen on Broadway as Harold Hill in The Music Man, and Off-Broadway in Some Girl(s). He is best known for his role in Will & Grace, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Leading Actor in a Comedy Series.