The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev has signed on to direct The Keep for CBS Films, which has closed a deal for rights to Jennifer Egan's spooky 2006 best-seller set in Eastern Europe, according to Risky Business.

CBS Films is in final negotiations to acquire the adapted screenplay written by The Skeleton Key scribe Ehren Kruger.

The Keep is a story within a story about two cousins with a shared secret who reunite to renovate a legendary haunted medieval castle that turns dreams and nightmares into reality.

No production date has been set.