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Gaiman Says The Graveyard Book is Still Alive

January 22, 2010

Neil Gaiman told the Los Angeles Times that the adaptation of "The Graveyard Book" is no longer in the works at Miramax, but may turn up elsewhere soon. The film was to be written and directed by Neil Jordan (The Brave One, The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire).

"It was all put together over at Miramax Films. The people there had a long, great relationship with Neil Jordan and it was all set up and ready to go, and then Miramax was more or less erased from existence," Gaiman said. "It became a filing cabinet in somebody's desk, more or less... But it looks like almost all the pieces are on the table again. They have a studio, they have a distributor and they are putting stuff together and I'm not allowed to say anything else."

Gaiman next hopes to write a screenplay for "Anansi Boy," his first novel.

COMMENTS (7)

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John SMith

January 22, 2010

Anansi Boys (plural) is NOT Gaiman's first novel. American Gods, Neverwhere, and Stardust among others were all before Anansi Boys.

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Pinkus

January 22, 2010

I was gonna say the same thing, definitely not his first novel. I wish they'd make a kick ass movie out of Neverwhere, that book is amazing.

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neverwhere

January 22, 2010

pinkus neverwhere started out as a 6 episode series on the BBC in the 90s. Gaiman helped write it and later adapted it into a novel. If hollywood was gonna do a remake however that might be a good one...tho they'd probably screw it up and change it from London to New York or something

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actually

January 22, 2010

you can probably still pickup the dvds. i bought mine about 2 yrs ago, its decent, like the book better tho.

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January 22, 2010

Forget this. Give us a Sandman movie already!!!

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Joss Wheden

January 22, 2010

fight the man brother! fight the man!

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