We loved Henry Selick ’s stop - motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman ’s creepy Coraline , and now the Nightmare Before Christmas director is taking on a 2nd Gaiman tale , with a Walter Elias Disney - backed version of The Graveyard Book .
Yesterday , Disney discover that it had snapped up rights to The Graveyard Book , Gaiman ’s play on Rudyard Kipling ’s The Jungle Book . Where Kipling ’s hero Mowgli was lift by wolves in the jungle , Gaiman ’s , Nobody “ Bod ” Owens is levy by ghosts ( among other things ) in a graveyard , where he encounters all mode of unknown and shivery creatures . Today , we acquire that Disney has attach Selick — who has been doing some mysterious oeuvre with Pixar — to direct . Hopefully , he ’ll play the same chid - like terrors and delights he fetch to Coraline . At the very least , we ’ll belike get some gorgeous stop - apparent motion in the bargain .
[ /Film ]
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