Daniel Radcliffe to Star in Film Adaptation of The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has been signed to star in a film adaptation of the supernatural thriller The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. James Watkins (Eden Lake) will direct the Jane Goldman written screenplay.

The Woman in Black, published in 1983, was previously adapted in 1987 as a stage play and in 1989 as a BBC made-for-television drama. Radcliffe will play the role of young lawyer Arthur Kipps.

About The Woman in Black (from the publisher): Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero one Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the nursery of the deserted Eel Marsh House, the eerie sound of pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and, most dreadfully, and for Kipps most tragically, the woman in black.