{"id":1341,"date":"2012-04-30T20:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T00:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2012-05-03T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:34:38","slug":"the-graveyard-book-to-be-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"The Graveyard Book to be animated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyardb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"graveyardb\" src=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/graveyardb_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"graveyardb\" width=\"404\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t read Neil Gaiman\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060530944\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wizardwalk-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0060530944\">The Graveyard Book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-style: none! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0060530944\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>. It\u2019s been on my \u201cto read\u201d list for a while.\u00a0 I did read Gaiman\u2019s initial short story the book is based on, which appeared in some magical-themed anthology, and thought it was fantastic.\u00a0 It featured a wonderful premise that felt both spooky and heartfelt at the same time: an orphan child of a murdered family is raised in a graveyard by ghosts.\u00a0 There are so many exciting possibilities with such a premise.\u00a0 Anyway, not long after the book came out and won the Newbery Medal and the Hugo Award, the film rights were optioned.\u00a0 But it never seemed to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>But according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/04\/disney-scares-up-deal-for-neil-gaimans-the-graveyard-book\/\">this recent article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disney just made a high six-figure deal for <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em>, the bestselling children\u2019s title by Neil Gaiman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Progress.\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the news that really excites me (if it\u2019s true):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve learned that Henry Selick, who helmed Gaiman\u2019s<em> Coraline,<\/em> is now attached to direct <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em> at Disney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So will <em>The Graveyard Book<\/em> become a 3D stop-motion animated feature, like <em>Coraline<\/em>?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be awesome?\u00a0 We\u2019ll wait and see.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still haven&#8217;t read Neil Gaiman\u2019s The Graveyard Book. It\u2019s been on my \u201cto read\u201d list for a while.\u00a0 I did read Gaiman\u2019s initial short story the book is based on, which appeared in some magical-themed anthology, and thought it was fantastic.\u00a0 It featured a wonderful premise that felt both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[99],"tags":[58,503],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}