Get ready for a 'Lady Macbeth' young adult musical

In case you were a person hoping for a young-adult musical based on Lady Macbeth, today is your day. The Hollywood Reporter is announcing that Amazon Studios is picking up an untitled Lady Macbeth feature project that has Scooter Braun and Channing Tatum among its producers.

S.J. Inwards will write the project while John McPhail, who made the zombie horror comedy musical Anna and the Apocalypse, will direct.

THR states:

Details of the plot are being kept in a castle keep, but the story is said to center on a teenage girl who grapples with her own morality as she contends with the dreadful consequences of her ambition.

It takes its cues from Lady Macbeth, one of literature’s most prominent characters and a key figure in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the tale of a Scottish general who murders his way into kingship while descending into madness from guilt and belief in a prophecy told by witches. Lady Macbeth is his wife, a calculating woman who prods her husband into murder and war.

Amazon has not officially commented on the project. No casting or release date news has been made yet.