Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel “The Graveyard Book” appears to be headed for the big-screen again.
The book was optioned for a movie, but fell through late year. Now it appears to be back on the front burner with Neil Jordan directing and adapted the book for the silver screen.
Gaiman tells MTV News that he’s waiting for Jordan’s next draft of the script and then went into why the first project didn’t make it to the silver screen.
As for the first draft, Gaiman indicated that it was “great,” but he had some concerns about the screenplay being too faithful to the source material.
“There was some stuff that was good, and in some cases, too faithful,” he said. “It reminded a little bit of the first draft we got of ‘Coraline,’ where it was just so faithful because the person doing it loved the book so much.”
“You actually have to let it breathe and make it a movie,” said Gaiman of the adaptation process. “It will be interesting to see what happens in Neil’s next draft.”
The movie is being produced by Wayfare Entertainment, Framestore, Gaiman, Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures and South Korean media company CJ Entertainment. The project has seen its financing come and go but is back from the dead thanks to 1492 and CJ’s involvement. CJ also will co-finance “Graveyard” and distribute the pic in Korea and Japan.
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