It seems stop-motion master Henry Selick (Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas) has a new movie, as Disney has secured the rights to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Selick to direct, according to Deadline.
We just reported that Steve Kloves was writing and directing a live-action version of The Jungle Book for Warner Bros, and The Graveyard book gives a spooky take on the same story. However rather than being about a boy raised by wolves, this take follows a young lad who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered.
A while ago, Neil Jordan was to direct a live action version of the Newberry Award-winning novel, but now Disney and Selick have taken over the rights, with the film presumably planned as a stop-motion flick.
It may be a while until the director gets around to The Graveyard Book, as he won’t start making it until he finishes work on a top-secret movie with Pixar, which he’s currently putting together.