Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is finally getting the feature film treatment.

Shirley Jackson's short story “The Lottery” (which you can read an analysis of here) is one of the most frequently anthologized – and pondered upon, The New Yorker received more letters than it ever had when it first ran the story in 1948, both irate, horrified, and utterly baffled by the horror they just read – stories in the English language. It has been treated on the small screen and on stage and radio a number of times, but never in feature film format – until now. Jackson's piece...