Kripke recently told Entertainment Weekly that “when I was 10, I fell in love with this book.” In fact, the only fan letter Kripke ever wrote as a child was to Bellairs. As a child of the 1980s, Kripke was very familiar with Bellairs. Fischer and James Vanderbilt of Mythology Entertainment approached screenwriter Eric Kripke (creator of Supernatural) for the film project. After Lewis inadvertently wakes the dead, the house’s clock begins ticking faster, hastening the end of the world. Lewis soon learns that his uncle is a warlock and the next-door neighbor Mrs. In The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Dial), Lewis Barnavelt (played by Vaccaro) goes to live with his Uncle Jonathan (Black) in a labyrinthine house that holds a sinister ticking clock in its walls. The film stars Owen Vaccaro ( Daddy’s Home), Jack Black ( Goosebumps) and Cate Blanchett ( Ocean's 8), and is directed by Eli Roth ( Cabin Fever), marking the horror director’s first “family-friendly” film. With the film adaptation of John Bellairs’s 1973 novel, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, releasing on September 21, a new generation of readers will have the opportunity to discover Bellairs’s storytelling. Before there was “The Boy Who Lived,” there was Lewis Barnavelt, a 10-year-old orphan who brushed shoulders with wizards, witches, sorcerers, ghosts, and his share of occultists.
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