We last told you about Hammer’s WOMAN IN BLACK remake back in February; now we tell you about it again. Why? Because it’s going the 3D route. So says a press release just issued by Hammer, Exclusive Media Group and Alliance Films, all of which are financing the spooky thriller.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 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 alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black.
The film is being directed by James Watkins (EDEN LAKE), with a script written by KICK-ASS scribe Jane Goldman (who is also penning the new X-MEN film). Production is expected to begin in the Fall of 2010.
Susan Hill’s novel has become a modern classic, appearing on the national curriculum in the United Kingdom. The Woman in Black was also adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt, first performed at the Theatre-By-The-Sea in Scarborough, UK in 1987. It moved to the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End in 1989, where it still successfully runs today, over twenty years later, and has been performed the world over.
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