Eli Roth is filming an adaptation of horror novel “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”

November 24, 2017 Ganiveta News 0

Eli Roth is filming an adaptation of horror novel "The House with a Clock in Its Walls"

The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a gothic horror novel directed at child readers. It was written by John Bellairs and originally published in 1973. It was pretty renown for its illustrations by famed goth artist Edward Gorey.

The book begins when the recently orphaned Lewis Barnavelt moves to the town of New Zebedee, Michigan, to live with his mysterious uncle Jonathan Barnavelt. Jonathan turns out to be a mediocre, though well-intentioned, warlock, while his next-door neighbor and good friend, Florence Zimmermann, is a far more powerful good witch. Jonathan’s house was previously owned by Isaac and Selenna Izard, a sinister couple who had dedicated their lives to black magic and plotted to bring about the end of the world. Before dying, Isaac constructed the eponymous clock that he hid somewhere inside the walls of the house, where it eternally ticks, still attempting to pull the world into the magical alignment, which would permit him to destroy it.

The filming of the movie adaptation The House with a Clock in its Walls (2018) has already started under the direction of the always interesting Eli Roth. Eric Kripke, the writer of Boogeyman (2005) or the TV series Supernatural (2005-2017) has been in charge of the script based on the novel. The cast, which includes some A-class names, consist of Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Owen Vaccaro, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sunny Suljic, Ricky Muse and Charles Green among others.

Being responsible of some of the most intense horror films of the new millennium, with titles like Hostel (2005), Hostel: Part II (2007) or The Green Inferno (2013), this marks the first time Eli Roth is directing a family oriented film. It is also the first time he is adapting a literary piece or working for Steven Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment, one of Roth’s movie heroes.

We will have to wait until next year to see the movie. Some official release dates are 20th of September in Germany, 21st of September in the USA and 19th of October in the UK. More release dates are yet to come.

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