Earlier this week, NBC announced that it is adapting Rosemary's Baby and has given the green light to a four-hour miniseries based on the novel. Writers Scott Abbott and James Wong will be penning the screenplay for the project.

The classic, best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin was published in 1967. The book tells the story of a couple who moves into a New York City apartment. As the couple begins their life there and then expects a child, they learn that their neighbors are leaders of a Satanic coven who want to sacrifice their unborn baby to the devil. The book was adapted into a movie in 1968 that was directed and written by Roman Polanski.

An article published by The Hollywood Reporter quoted Quinn Taylor, executive vp movies, miniseries and international co-productions at NBC. "Ira Levin’s mesmerizing book was a groundbreaking reflection on how effective and influential a psychological thriller could be," Taylor said. “We’re looking forward to adapting his incredible work and bringing those indelible characters to a new generation of viewers.”

The miniseries will follow a similar story, but the setting is different. According to the Los Angeles Times, the new NBC miniseries "will take place in Paris, with a young married couple moving into an apartment with a creepy history. Pretty soon, the wife is pregnant, her husband and the neighbors are acting funny and there's a growing suspicion that when the baby arrives, it'll have cloven hooves and a pair of horns."

NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke told THR that NBC is moving further into the event movie and miniseries arena, and that "Rosemary’s Baby represents the kind of attention-getting, surprising project that will make noise for us. The story has been updated and moved to Paris, but it’s faithful to the spirit of Ira Levin’s classic novel. This is a compelling tale wonderfully told.

Abbott is known for writing the screenplay for the 2002 film Queen of the Damned, the 1991 TV Movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and the 1998 TV movie Winchell. Wong is a co-executive producer and writer for the hit TV series American Horror Story. He has more than a dozen writing and production credits for television, including The Event, The X Files, Space: Above and Beyond and Millennium. He also wrote the screenplay for Final Destination 3.

In other adaptation news, Universal Pictures has hired Breaking Bad writer Gennifer Hutchison to adapt the teen fantasy novel The Red Queen. Check out the ScreenCraft post.