Marc Forster Hired To Direct Disney's Film Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

Disney Studios is moving forward with its film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book as they’ve hired Marc Forster to direct the movie. The film project was originally announced twelve years ago and it has gone through various stages of development since then with other writers and directors. There’s a good chance that it will happen with Forster.

Forster has previously directed films such as Monster’s Ball, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace, and World War Z. He most recently directed the upcoming film White Bird: A Wonder Story. The Graveyard Book will reunite Forster with Finding Neverland screenwriter David Magee, who will also write the script.

The book tells the story of Nobody “Bod” Owen, “a young boy who is raised by the ghosts and supernatural beings of a graveyard – including, the graveyard’s caretaker Silas – after his family is murdered.”

I thought this was a great story and I think it’ll make for a wonderful film. Forster is a solid director and this will be a great project for him.

Here is a description for the book in case you don't know what it is about:

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.

But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . .

What do you think about Marc Forster directing The Graveyard Book for Disney?

Source: Deadline