Sebastian Stan to star in 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'

Actor Sebastian Stan, best known for playing the Winter Soldier in '

Captain America

' is set to join the cast of '

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

.'

The movie is an adaptation of the 1962 novel by

Shirley Jackson

, said The

Hollywood Reporter

.


Michael Douglas is producing the thriller with Jared Goldman, Robert Mitas and Robert Halmi, Jr.

Stacie Passon is directing the project from a script she wrote with Mark Kroger.

The story revolves around an isolated family which has lost four members to poisoning and uses rituals and talismans to keep itself away from hostile townspeople.

Stan will play a distant cousin, intent on maliciously securing the family's fortune whose arrival sets in motion the uncovering of family secrets.