Stephenie Meyer Goes Down A Dark Hall

Although she’s best known for writing the Twilight books, Stephenie Meyer is also very interested in film and has even set up a production company so she can usher movies onto the big screen. Now Variety reports that she’s picked up the rights to somebody else’s young adult book with the hope of turning it into a movie.

The novel is Louis Duncan’s spooky 1974 tome, Down A Dark Hall, is about a young girl named Kit Gordy who goes to a boarding school called Blackwood where she is one of only four students. While this is a bit odd to start with, the situation gets worse when Kit discovers that Blackwood is haunted by an evil curse.

Wyck Godfrey, who served as a producer on all of the Twilight movies, is currently in negotiations to produce the project as well, so it sounds like they’re looking at this as a potential new franchise to fill the gap when Twilight is over.