Variety reports that Untitled Entertainment has struck a deal with Picture Entertainment Corp. to bring William Faulkner's classic novel THE SOUND AND THE FURY to the bigscreen. W. Merritt Johnson will adapt.

Published in 1929, book tells the story of the Compson family, a Mississippi clan that has fallen on hard times at the turn of the century. Narrative is told in four parts through the eyes of the family's three brothers and a servant named Dilsey. The brothers are obsessed with their sister, who was pushed out of the house for her unruly ways.

Martin Ritt directed a 1959 feature adaptation of the book for 20th Century Fox that starred Yul Brynner and Joanne Woodward.