Following the recent news that Taissa Farmiga and Alexandra Daddario were added to the film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it's now been revealed that Crispin Glover has joined the movie's ranks in a key role.
According to THR, Glover will portray Uncle Julian Blackwood in the gothic film. Suffering from gangrene and unable to move without the aid of a wheelchair, Uncle Julian mourns the suspicious demises of his wife and brother.
Glover joins a cast that includes Farmiga and Daddario as "agoraphobic sisters" and Sebastian Stan (Captain America: Civil War) as a cousin of the family who stirs things up upon his arrival at the Blackwood home.
Produced by Michael Douglas, Jared Goldman, Robert Mitas and Robert Halmi Jr., We Have Always Lived in the Castle is directed by Stacie Passon from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mark Kruger. Principal photography on the movie is now underway in Ireland.
Glover, who will portray Mr. World in the new Starz series American Gods, is perhaps best known as George McFly from 1985's Back to the Future, but he has played a wide range of roles over his 35-year career, including Jimmy Mortimer in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Layne in River's Edge, and the rat-friendly titular character in 2003's Willard.
We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details regarding We Have Always Lived in the Castle. 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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