Ron Perlman Joins Amazon MGM Horror Film Seasons

Ron Perlman joins Seasons, the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios horror film from Companion writer-director Drew Hancock, alongside Lily James and Jack Reynor.

The project began as the viral short story My Wife and I Bought a Ranch by Matt and Harrison Query. Hancock wrote the screenplay and will direct, with production expected to begin in Ireland in September.

Amazon MGM Studios has not announced a release date or confirmed whether Seasons will open theatrically before reaching streaming. With filming planned for September, the project remains in an early stage and does not yet have official footage or first-look images.

A ranch with rules for every season

Seasons follows a husband and wife who buy a ranch and discover that the land is alive with ancient spirits. Surviving requires them to follow increasingly disturbing rituals as each new season arrives.

The premise gives Hancock a different kind of relationship nightmare after Companion. Instead of technology and control, the new film places a couple inside a cycle of supernatural rules that appears to tighten around them over time.

James and Reynor are expected to play the central couple. Perlman’s role has not been disclosed, leaving open whether he will be connected to the ranch, its history or the forces demanding those rituals.

Ron Perlman adds another horror project

Perlman has moved comfortably between fantasy, horror and comic-book roles throughout his career, from Hellboy to Nightmare Alley. His presence gives Seasons another immediately recognizable genre name without revealing how the character fits into the story.

Reynor brings his own horror history after Midsommar, while James recently starred in genre projects including Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. Together, the cast gives Hancock a strong foundation for a story that will depend on how convincingly the central relationship changes under pressure.

What We Think

I’ve been a Ron Perlman fan since Beauty and the Beast (I’m really dating myself here), so this has me excited. The seasonal ritual concept is very interesting as well. It raises the question: how many terrible rules will the couple accept before surviving the ranch is no longer worth what it costs them? Having seen enough horror movies, I’m sure they’ll sink their whole life savings into the ranch so they won’t be able to leave.

Hancock handled Companion effectively, and we enjoyed it without being blown away. It’ll be interesting to see what he does with Seasons, which sounds like a much more overtly supernatural story. There’s plenty of room for this to become more than another haunted-property movie if the rituals and mythology are strong enough.

Sources: Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Hot Press