Leslie Odom, Jr. is set to write and star in a horror film adapted from the August 2024 Rolling Stone article “Dance with the Devil: Inside Sammy Davis Jr.’s Secret Satanic Past” by Alex Bhattacharji. The article explores Sammy’s unexpected friendship with Anton Szandor LaVey, founder and high priest of the Church of Satan, during the 1970s and how the church’s tenet of radical acceptance appealed to a perennial outsider like Sammy.