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05-20-2012, 11:32 AM
Weir has signed up to adapt "A Visit From The Goon Squad" author Jennifer Egan's best-selling contemporary gothic thriller "The Keep."

Synopsis:-

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. 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—a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle—that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/peter-weir-returns-with-adaptation-of-jennifer-egans-contemporary-gothic-thriller-the-keep-20120520#

fortunato
05-20-2012, 07:37 PM
Holy crap, yes! Endlessly pumped for this one. Sounds like it might be a return to Picnic at Hanging Rock/The Last Wave-era Weir and his knack for reserved dread.

Fearonsarms
05-21-2012, 06:01 PM
I hope it has a rich gothic atmosphere and the downbeat tone of Picnic At Hanging Rock-I hope he makes me feel suicidal!!