A British
vampire story written by William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize winning author of The Sound and the Fury, written as
a prank will become a $60million Hollywood film. Dreadful Hollow depicts an evil eastern European Countess preying on young visitors to her mansion in Victorian England. Faulkner, who died in 1962, wrote about the American South in novels replete with allegory, and worked as a
screen writer in the 30’s and 40’s including The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart. Jill Faulkner Summers, his daughter, found the vampire story among papers at her home, long after his death. Faulkner based his script on the little known novelist Irina Karlova, the
mysterious plot concerns the mysterious Countess who possesses unearthly evil. Faulkner spent a lot of time scriptwriting in Hollywood prior to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, he wrote the script for Howard Hawks with whom he was working on The Big Sleep. Caplin, the producer, who has been granted permission to make the film, is also the literary executor of the Faulkner estate and is a friend of the family since childhood. Screen stars who have declared their devotion to Faulkner include Brad Pitt who attended school in Missouri; Reese Witherspoon, a native of Louisiaa, and the Tennessee born singer and actor, Justin Timberlake