After creating various masks for former WWE superstar Bray “The Fiend” Wyatt, we’ve learned today that makeup effects artist Jason Baker is now making a movie with Wyatt.
Baker, who owns Callosum Studios and frequently creates magic for the world of professional wrestling with partner Tom Savini, will be directing Wyatt in the upcoming movie.
Jason Baker tells UK website Metro, “[Bray Wyatt (real name Windham Rotunda) is] a phenomenal collaborator, he’s become a really good friend, and we’re actually – you’re the first person that we’re publicly telling about. We’re starting a film at the end of the month.”
Baker continues, “Two weeks to go, we’re filming in Tennessee. It’s a feature film and it’s something really new and different. I’d say probably the best way to describe it is Ichi the Killer meets Xanadu.”
“Hopefully fans of horror and fans of Windham like it,” Baker also teases, suggesting that the mysterious upcoming movie is indeed a horror project. Baker is the mastermind behind Bray Wyatt’s recent “Firefly Funhouse” segments in WWE, which often featured creepy dolls and other spooky goings-on. We’ll have more on their latest collaboration as we learn it.
Rob Fee wrote the upcoming movie with Baker and Wyatt.
Baker and Savini recently created the mask for Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone.