Back in October I told you that Neil Gaiman’s THE GRAVEYARD BOOK was his next project to head before cameras, with the FX house Framestore heavily involved. Now we know which director will be calling the shots: Neil Jordan, director of hits like INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and THE CRYING GAME, as well as misses like THE BRAVE ONE and IN DREAMS.
If you’re unfamiliar with THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, nibble on this 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. . .
Jordan has long been attached to the fantasy/mystery KILLING ON CARNIVAL ROW – about a world where vampires, faeries and mythical creatures co-exist with human beings – but that project has been delayed for so long that it looks like it may never happen. But he and Gaiman are a team worth keeping an eye on, and crossing your fingers for…