Bloody-Disgusting reports today that Neil Gaiman (the man who directed the ambitious MIRROR MASK on such a miniscule budget that it still blows my mind) was on NPR station 89.3 last night and dropped some news about an upcoming project he describes as ‘an update of THE JUNGLE BOOK, only set entirely in a graveyard.’ The novel, called THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, will be about a young boy who is raised by corpses after his parents tragically die.
Yes, you read that right.
Furthermore, on Gaiman’s online journal, he writes that the film will contain ‘more sex, more death, and be deeply scarier on most levels than Anansi Boys.’ For those of you who don’t know, Gaiman wrote Anansi Boys, which (obviously) contains the above mentionables.
For more on Gaiman’s book, including the inspiration (shades of PET SEMETARY, anyone?), click here.
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