While Shirley Jackson is perhaps best remembered for leaving an eerie imprint on the literary world with The Haunting of Hill House, she also sent shudders down readers' spines with 1962's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The last book written by Jackson is now finding new life in a big screen adaptation that recently added Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario to its cast.
The news of Farmiga and Daddario's casting comes from Borys Kit at THR, who reveals that the actresses have joined Sebastian Stan (Captain America: Civil War) in the movie. According to THR, the duo will play "agoraphobic sisters who become divided by the cousin’s arrival."
Neither actress is a stranger to the horror genre. Farmiga recently played the lead role in The Final Girls, appeared in multiple seasons of American Horror Story, and plays a key role in Ti West's upcoming Western, In a Valley of Violence. Daddario starred in 2013's Texas Chainsaw 3D, played Lisa Tragnetti on the first season of True Detective, and also co-starred in Joe Dante's Burying the Ex.
Produced by Michael Douglas, Jared Goldman, Robert Mitas and Robert Halmi Jr., the adaptation is being directed by Stacie Passon from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mark Kruger.
We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details. In the meantime, for those unfamiliar with the source material, we have the book's official synopsis and cover art below.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle novel synopsis (via Penguin Books): "Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson’s brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life."
Cover art courtesy of POPSUGAR:
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