Vulture.com has learned that Kristen Stewart has just signed on to play the lead role in Lie Down In Darkness, an indie adaptation of William Styron’s 1951 novel with the same name.

Directed by Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper and set in genteel fifties Virginia, Lie Down will have Stewart play Peyton Loftis. As part of a dysfunctional and disintegrating family, Peyton is constantly compared to her crippled sister, Maudie, and her intense physical beauty makes her the object of her frigid mother’s jealous hatred and the target of her father’s incestuous, alcoholic lust.

Via Vulture.com