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The Lottery, Shirley Jackson’s 1948 horror tale, is getting a cinematic adaptation at long last for Paramount Pictures.

Although there have been radio and TV versions, the story – about a very unusual method of ensuring a good farming season – has never been produced on the big screen. Jake Wade Wall is penning the script, with Frank Marshall among the producers. The film will be contemporary, with Marshall telling Deadline that the script has “a dystopian, Handmaid’s Tale feel about it.”