CBS Films has set The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev to direct The Keep and is in final negotiations to acquire the screenplay written by Ehren Kruger. The film is based on Jennifer Egan’s spooky 2006 best-seller, described as follows:
Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep the tower, the last stand is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
Kruger, Daniel Bobker and Matthew Stillman will produce. Production executive Maria Faillace will oversee for CBS Films.
