Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK Rises With Ron Howard At The Helm?
We were delighted when it was reported that Henry Selick would be directing a stop-animation film based on the story...
The director of James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline doing another Neil Gaiman story? Oh yes, please. Then the relationship between rights owners, Disney, and the director took a sour turn, they parted ways, and the project was put on hold.The Graveyard Book is a riff on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. But instead of being raised by jungle animals the boy in Gaiman's book, Nobody Owens, is raised by ghosts in a cemetery after his family is murdered. When the boy is older the killer returns to finish the job.
Today's announcement names Ron Howard as being in talks to direct a live action version of the story. Howard will oversee completion of a new script and will possibly produce the film along with Life of Pi's Gil Netter.
My thoughts about this development? Remember the last time Howard adapted a children's book?
All other arguments are invalid.
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