According to Ryan over at ShockTillYouDrop, Carpenter will begin shooting "The Ward" this May with Amber Heard (an actress whose name is know to me, though I have no idea what she is especially known for) in the lead.

Heard will play "a young woman trapped in a mental asylum with a malevolent ghost.  As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost may be darker than she could have imagined."

Now, I'm not sure what kind of ghost one might typically encounter while being trapped in a mental institution, but I'd hazard a guess that any spirit residing therein is going to have some issues. 

I'm not sure what happened to Carpenter's plans to direct Nicolas Cage in "Scared Straight", a prison thriller that was announced back in August, but I'm just psyched that the man is finally getting back behind the camera.

To wonder what Amber Heard had that Cage didn't click here