Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is hitting the big screens. The book, which loosely transposes Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book into a more sinister setting features a young boy Nobody "Bod" Owens who, like Mowgli, is separated from his parents. But whereas Mowgli is raised by wolves in the jungle, Bod is raised by ghosts in the graveyard. Bod's family have been murdered by "the man Jack" but the boy, then a toddler, managed to creep into the relative safety of the graveyard. Years pass and it seems that the murderer has forgotten the one that got away. But now Jack is back...
Last weekend Disney revealed that they have bought the rights to the book and have taken on Henry Selick to direct. Selick is best known as director of the much loved animated Nightmare Before Christmas as well as his stop-motion adaptation of Gaiman's Coraline.
I wasn't mad about the film adaptation of Coraline but Nightmare Before Christmas was super. Must pick up a copy of the book, so I can be all 'Well, it's not as good as the book, of course ...' when it comes out. Probably don't even need the book for that.
ReplyDeleteThe book is good in fairness. I still have to watch the movie though
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