I know many people who are absolutely bonkers for Neil Gaiman the way I’m bonkers for beer, or Mila Kunis. Okay, maybe not in the same way, but he inspires in them the same dizzy smile, the dreamy tone of voice, the weakening of the knees… The drooling… Hey, don’t judge me!
The guy is already a legend in the literary world, but his transition to the big screen hasn’t gone swimmingly. Last year’s STARDUST was a flop, and before that was the barely-seen MIRRORMASK… (I won’t really count his BEOWULF screenplay because that’s not an original work of his.) But he’s got something new brewing that sounds promising (in addition to the completed CORALINE which hits theaters next February): an adaptation of THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, based on his illustrated novel, which just came out last month to very positive notices. Gaiman talked with MTV about the project, which will at some point soon enter pre-production.
“I don’t know if I can talk about this, but seeing that you’ve asked me, and seeing that I haven’t been told by anybody that I can’t talk about it,” Neil revealed, “but yes.”
Gaiman reveals that a special effects company called Framestore (THE DARK KNIGHT) will be producing the flick. “They want to start making films, and start producing their own films,” Gaiman said. “And they read it, and they loved it, and I spoke to them, and they said all the right things, and they seem to listen. So I don’t think it’s going to be transported to a graveyard in Los Angeles where they’ve been burying bathing beauties or anything. I think we’re actual going to stick with where the book is written and film that. And I think part of the idea is that they know they can also do the special effects cheaply.”
Read on for the book’s synopsis! Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. . .
Feeling.. lightheaded… must reach for… drool cup…
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