Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Graveyard Book

2/2/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that The Graveyard Book writer, Neil Gaiman, is already working with director Neil Jordan on the feature film adaptation.  "The Graveyard Book, even before publication, there were a lot of studios circling it like sharks," Gaiman said. "I wound up going with Framestore, who are an English special-effects and animation house that wanted to get more into movies and who just inspired me with trust. I liked these people, and I wasn't having the kind of phone calls where they would say, 'So, obviously we change this, this and this,' which a lot of other people were saying."  Gaiman added: "Framestore didn't seem to have a problem with the fact that you're in a story that begins with an offscreen murder of a family just before the book begins."  Gaiman and Jordan are now hard at work on adapting the book for the screen. Gaiman describes his meetings with Jordan as "lovely" and "wine-fueled."

AlienAlmanac.com 2009