Untitled Entertainment and Picture Entertainment Corp. are at work on a new adaptation of William Faulkner's classic 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury" reports Variety.
The story follows the Compson family, a Mississippi clan that has fallen on hard times at the turn of the century. Narrative is told in four parts through the eyes of the family's three brothers and a servant named Dilsey. The brothers are obsessed with their sister, who was pushed out of the house for her unruly ways.
Martin Ritt directed a 1959 feature adaptation of the book for 20th Century Fox that starred Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward. W. Merritt Johnson ("Temple Grandin", "The Lighthouse at the End of the World") will adapt the script.
