Hammer Films has optioned feature film rights to Susan Hill’s best-selling ghost story novel, “The Woman in Black”, and will produce a feature film adaptation with Talisman Films, the studio announced. The fabled British horror movie studio is owned by Exclusive Media Group.
Jane Goldman (“Stardust,” Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming “Kick-Ass”) is penning the screenplay and James Watkins (“Eden Lake,” and the upcoming “Methuselah” for Warner Bros.) will direct.
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black.