The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog is reporting that Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures has secured the film rights to the 2003 horror novel The Sitter by R. L. Stine. Dana Stevens will write the adaptation, tentatively titled The Au Pair.
In The Sitter, Ellie Saks is sick of dead-end jobs in the city and takes a job as a nanny for a family in the Hamptons. But then she meets family's four-year-old Brandon, who hasn’t spoken for months. The boy’s icy stare and demonic laughter make clear to Ellie that he is troubled, haunted by something too horrible for words. She soon begins to receive threatening messages and disturbing gifts, and every once in a while, in a crowd, she sees a face she hasn’t seen in seven years—the face of a boy who died long ago. It would seem that Ellie’s summer of fun has turned into a summer of horror—one she’ll never forget ... if she survives it at all.
Read the first chapters of The Sitter below.
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