Rachel McAdams has dipped her toe into the horror/thriller genre before with** Red Eye**, but if she really does land a role in We Have Always Lived In The Castle, it’ll mark her first proper stab at a scary movie.
According to the fine folk at Pajiba, she’s rumoured to be up for a role in the film, adapted from Shirley Jackson’s 1962 novel.
Michael Douglas appears to be locked in to play the uncle to two sisters (a rumoured McAdams and equally yet-to-sign Saoirse Ronan) who are all forced into seclusion after several of their family members are poisoned. There’s no word on a director yet, so consider this one a rumour for now.
And on the subject of McAdams’ purported work schedule, she’s also a possible leading lady for Mark Pellington and Guillermo del Toro’s remake of The Orphanage, though while that one is closer to actually filming, it’s a lot less likely that the actress will sign on, particularly given the options she’s currently juggling, including a Woody Allen film, a Terence Malick project, a movie about the life of Eliot Ness and, on the slightly more concrete front, a sequel to Sherlock Holmes.