Neil Jordan - who doesn't get enough credit internationally for being a supreme visualist - should be linked with every adaptation of any graphic novel with half a brain that gets bandied about Hollywood but his tendency to develop his own projects means that he rarely gets attached to big-name projects (with the exception of Interview With The Vampire). Today however, he is being linked with The Graveyard Book, a Newberry Medal winning book by none other than Neil Gaiman, arguably Britain's finest fantasy/horror writer.
We haven't had the pleasure of reading The Graveyard Book but apparently it's a litle like The Jungle Book but with ghosts instead of panthers. It's about a little boy who clambers out of his crib one night and out of the house - the same night that his entire family is killed by a terrifying man called Jack. The baby wanders into a graveyard, where he is hidden from the killer by friendly ghosts, and then adopted by them. Nobody, as he is then called, is raised by the Owens, a deceased couple, Silas, who's neither dead nor alive, and a whole graveyard full of spooks.
Jordan, a top class writer to boot, especially when it comes to adaptations, is also set to pen the screenplay so this could be a supreme match of two fervent imaginations. As it stands though, nothing is set in stone so keep your fingers crossed. No really, we're watching you.
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