Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline) is set to direct an animated version of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Disney, reports Deadline.
A dark twist on The Jungle Book (in which an abandoned baby is raised by wolves), The Graveyard Book is about a child being raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
Selick is already working for Disney-based Pixar on another top secret film and will start work on Graveyard after that. A screenwriter is currently being sought.
Coincidentally, Warner Bros had just announced that it is working on a new live action version of The Jungle Book, with a script by seven-time Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves.
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