On the heels of filming the Christian Bale movie “The Pale Blue Eye” in Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, Netflix will return to town in June to shoot the film “Demon House.”

Lee Daniels (“The Butler,” “Empire”) will direct the exorcism thriller that will star Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”), Mo’Nique (“Precious”), Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”), Rob Morgan (“Don’t Look Up”), Caleb McLaughlin (“Stranger Things”) and Aunjanue Ellis (“King Richard”).

“We’re delighted to welcome Lee Daniels and ‘Demon House’ to Southwestern Pennsylvania,” said Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn Keezer. “We’re always happy to see Netflix back in town, bringing hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars to our local economy.”

In January, Deadline reported the $65 million “Demon House” is inspired by an actual Indiana case where children supposedly became demonically possessed.

Beginning in 2011, Latoya Ammons (Day) reported seeing supernatural occurrences in her home that were also witnessed by a police officer, nurse and a child welfare worker. McLaughlin will play one of Ammons’ children at an older age with Close set to play Ammons’ mother. Morgan will take the role of Ammons’ boyfriend and Mo’Nique will play a social worker who tries to help Ammons. It’s unclear what role Ellis will play.

The reunion of Daniels and Mo’Nique, who replaced Octavia Spencer (Spencer dropped out of “Demon House” due to a scheduling conflict with her Apple TV series “Truth Be Told”), is notable. Daniels directed Mo’Nique in 2009’s “Precious,” for which Mo’Nique won a best supporting actress Oscar, but the pair had a falling-out over awards-season promotion of the film.

“Demon House” marks the latest in a string of Netflix projects to film locally, including the upcoming “Rustin,” 2020’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” 2021’s “Sweet Girl” and 2022’s recently-canceled “Archive 81.”

This latest production follows last week’s news that season two of “Mayor of Kingstown” will film in Pittsburgh this summer.

So far, there are no premiere dates for “The Pale Blue Eye” on Netflix, Amazon’s “A League of Their Own” series or the Pittsburgh-filmed comedy “Sprung” on Amazon Freevee, formerly known as IMDb TV.

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