Two-time Oscar winner and Hollywood titan Cate Blanchett is going to star in an Eli Roth film.
Variety reports that she’s in early talks to co-star with Jack Black in Amblin Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment’s The House With a Clock in Its Walls, an adaptation of the 1973 John Bellairs book illustrated by Edward Gorey.
“The novel tells the tale of a recently orphaned 10-year-old boy who discovers a world of hidden passageways, magic, and danger in his uncle’s old house.”
Eli Roth is directing with Eric Kripke penning the script.
Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt will produce with Kripke. The exec producers include William Sherak, Tracey Nyberg, and Laeta Kalogridis.
Blanchett stars in everything from Lords of the Rings to this fall’s Thor: Ragnarok.