{"id":23180,"date":"2012-04-30T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2012-04-30T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:17:56","slug":"neil-gaimans-the-graveyard-book-to-be-adapted-by-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/neil-gaimans-the-graveyard-book-to-be-adapted-by-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman&#8217;s The Graveyard Book to be adapted by Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney has struck a juicy six-figure deal to adapt Neil Gaiman&#8217;s best-selling novel, The Graveyard Book. It will be an animation directed by Henry Selick (A Nightmare Before Christmas) who has previous experience adapting a Gaiman novel on Coraline.<\/p>\n<p>The story is a twist on Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s The Jungle Book, with an orphan being raised by a graveyard of ghosts rather than a pack of wolves. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/04\/disney-scares-up-deal-for-neil-gaimans-the-graveyard-book\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Selick is currently working for Disny-based Pixar on a &#8220;top secret film&#8221; and will helm this project after. They are searching for a screenwriter now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyard-book-main.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23181\" title=\"graveyard-book-main\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyard-book-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyard-book-main.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyard-book-main-300x454.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strangely, an adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118053237?refCatId=13\">The Jungle Book<\/a> is underway with Harry Potter scriptwriter Steve Kloves in talks to pen, direct and produce the live-action take by Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Selick (Coraline) onboard to direct an animated Disney version of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s The Graveyard Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":23182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[327,2538,68,2536,2537],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyard-book-crop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}