The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Michael Douglas' production company Further Films is developing an adaption of Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Mark Kruger (The 4400) has written a draft of the screenplay.
Synopsis: Merricat, Constance and Uncle Julian Blackwood reside at their family estate. Once there were seven Blackwoods in the affluent family, until four of them were poisoned by arsenic in the sugar bowl. The survivors are snubbed, even openly reviled, by the not-so-wealthy townspeople, who believe that Constance did the killing. One day their cousin Charles arrives to stay, and Merricat perceives his too-mercenary interest in Constance and the location of their valuables. Only Merricat can see what's really happening.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle has previously been adapted for Broadway, but this is its first film treatment. Several of Jackson's other novels have been adapted for film including The Bird's Nest (released in 1957 as Lizzie) and The Haunting of Hill House (released as The Haunting both in 1963 and 1999). Probably the most famous work by Shirley Jackson is her short story The Lottery, which has been adapted several times for television.
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