THR is reporting that Eli Roth is set to direct Jack Black in a feature adaptation of John Bellairs’ children’s horror novel The House With a Clock In Its Walls. The project is being produced by Amblin Entertainment, with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke penning the script.
The book “tells of a recently orphaned boy who moves in with this uncle (who will be played by Black). The uncle, it turns out, is a mediocre witch, and soon the boy finds himself in a world of magic and danger, especially when he discovers a clock inside the walls of his house that is designed to bring about doomsday.”
Roth’s next film, a remake of the 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish, is set for release on November 22nd 2017.
Originally published June 22, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
