Michael Douglas is looking for a little bit of murder in his life as his production company picks up the rights to Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, about a reclusive and possibly murderous family.
The 4400 writer Mark Kruger has come up with a draft of the script, so far the first big-screen adaptation of the book, which was made into a Broadway play just after it was published.
It is not the first foray into Shirley Jackson territory from the Douglas house, as wife Catherine Zeta Jones starred in **The Haunting **which was based on her book The Haunting Of Hill House.
We Have Always Lived In The Castle follows the reculsive Blackwood family, confined to the house after a handful of their relatives were mysteriously killed by poisoning six years before. The Blackwoods consist of two sisters (Merricat and the agoraphobic Connie) and their obsessive uncle Julian, as well as a long-lost cousin out to take the family fortune, all of whom are now being cast by producers.
Further Films are currently hard at work developing a second sequel to Douglas' 1984 adventure Romancing The Stone, called** Racing The Monsoon**, which will star the maturing actor, and fingers crossed and his original partner in the film Kathleen Turner - because if it's good enough for Indy, then it is sure as hell good enough for them.
So who do you think could play the Blackwood clan? And should Douglas himself assume the role of the obsessive uncle Julian?