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A new version of Ray Bradbury’s classic tale Something Wicked This Way Comes is in preparation courtesy of Disney and Seth Grahame-Smith, according to a report at Deadline.

The film will be Grahame-Smith’s directorial debut, and he will prepare a screen story from which another scripter will prepare the final screenplay. “I have been so crazy about this book, and it was such a formative title in my life that I actually wrote a piece on NPR about why it is so important for young males to read,” Grahame-Smith told Deadline. “It is a classic coming-of-age, father-son story about the transition from childhood to adulthood and how kids can’t wait to be adults and adults romanticize their childhoods. I’m not remaking the movie; I want the haunted atmosphere that makes the book so chilling, and I want to reinstate some of the classic scenes from the book that were missing from the ’83 film.”

Grahame-Smith is currently working on the script for Beetlejuice Returns as well as a sequel to his novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Something Wicked This Way Comes was first published in 1962, and was adapted for the screen in 1983 by Bradbury himself; there have also been two major radio productions, for the Colonial Radio Theatre in 2007 and the BBC in 2011.