Lifetime to make Flowers in the Attic movie starring Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn

One of the most popular young adult novels of all time looks to be getting the Lifetime Original Movie treatment as Deadline reports the network has given the greenlight to Flowers In The Attic by V. C. Andrews. According to the site, Lifetime already has two huge names attached to the project with The Hangover‘s Heather Graham slated to play the children’s mother Corrine Dollanganger, and multiple Academy Award nominee Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream) set to take on the role of the grandmother (and attic owner) Olivia Foxworth.

From Deadline:

Flowers in the Attic will be produced by Front Street Pictures and executive produced by Merideth Finn (The Rite) and Michele Weiss (Little Children) of Cue the Dog Prods. and Charles W. Fries (Screamers), with Harvey Kahn (Lifetime’s Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story) producing. Deborah Chow (The High Cost of Living) will direct the film from a script by Kayla Alpert (Up All Night).

The Lifetime Original Movie production of Flowers In The Attic will mark the second time the novel has received the feature-length movie adaptation. In 1987 New World Pictures produced a theatrical release of the popular novel, but the film, which starred Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, and Jeb Stuart Adams, was panned by critics and moviegoers alike.

There’s no word yet who will play the four Dollanganger children, Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie. Also, it’s unclear if the movie is successful whether or not the network will follow up with a production of the novel’s sequel, Petals on the Wind.