Ron Howard in Talks to Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ For Disney
Neil Gaiman‘s best-selling YA novel The Graveyard Book, a ghoulish play on The Jungle Book, has been in development heck for a little while. It was announced as a stop-motion Disney project directed...
View ArticleJoe Wright to Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’
Joe Wright certainly has a thing for literary adaptations, as evidenced by his films Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Anna Karenina. Now he’s looking to direct yet another book-inspired movie,...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman Says a Black Actor Turned Down ‘Doctor Who’
The long-running BBC series Doctor Who just named the twelfth person to play the title character: Peter Capaldi. The actor is a great many things: rakishly charming, savagely funny, frighteningly...
View ArticleStar Wars Bits: Open Casting Calls Begin, Plus: Neil Gaiman, George Lucas,...
Star Wars Episode VII may have a release date now, but it still needs some stars and maybe some additional shooting locations. After the jump: Silicon Valley wants George Lucas to have his museum...
View ArticleDavid Goyer Pitching ‘Sandman’ Movie to Warner Bros.; Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s...
There’s a new issue of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman on stands now. It launches a short ongoing story called The Sandman: Overture, acting as an explanation of events that preceded the first issue of the...
View ArticleNew Company Working on ‘American Gods’ TV Series
Once upon a time, Neil Gaiman‘s novel American Gods was bound for HBO, with rumored notions developing for a six-series adaptation that would feature new material in addition to the original storyline...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon Levitt’s ‘Sandman’ Gains A Writer
Little is know about how producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt will tackle Neil Gaiman’s classic comic Sandman, but now we know who’ll write it. Jack Thorne, who wrote the upcoming Nick Hornby adaptation A...
View ArticleHere’s Why the ‘American Gods’ HBO Series Never Happened
You may recall that a few years back, HBO was planning a six-season adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods. You may also have noticed that that it never actually came to pass. So what happened?...
View ArticleBryan Fuller and Michael Green Developing ‘American Gods’ for Starz
A TV series is once again in development based on the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods. The story, which tells of a conflict between two factions of gods, old and new, and the man named Shadow who is...
View ArticleElle Fanning Will Lead Neil Gaiman’s ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’
While we wait to see what becomes of those long-gestating Sandman and American Gods adaptations, another Neil Gaiman tale is taking a step toward the big screen. Elle Fanning has signed on to lead How...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman’s ‘Hansel & Gretel’ Being Developed for Film
Here’s news of a new live-action Hansel and Gretel movie, but put aside your memories of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and try to start fresh. Because this isn’t just another studio ride on the...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman Explains ‘Sandman’ Absence From DC Movie Slate
When Warner Bros. announced a ten-film slate of DC Comics films last week, taking the studio all the way to 2020, you might have noticed one big omission. There was no Sandman, which we know Joseph...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman Talks About ‘Sandman,’ Likes Tom Hiddleston as Morpheus
Anyone who has ever read Sandman, the genre-bending comic written by Neil Gaiman, has probably thought about the idea of Tom Hiddleston as Morpheus, the title character and personification of Dream....
View ArticleNicole Kidman Joins Neil Gaiman Adaptation ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’
The title “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” brings to mind something very specific, yet this movie is not at all what you think it’s going to be. Clue one: it is based on a short story by Neil Gaiman,...
View ArticleStarz Greenlights ‘American Gods’ TV Series From Bryan Fuller and Michael Green
The Neil Gaiman novel American Gods, about an ex-con named Shadow who, thanks to a powerful and mysterious old man, is drawn into a conflict between gods old and new, has been in development for TV...
View ArticleBryan Fuller Shows Off Gorgeous ‘American Gods’ Concept Art; Neil Gaiman...
The long-developing American Gods TV show got to take a big leap forward this week when Starz announced it had officially greenlit the show. But even so, it’s going to be a while before we’re actually...
View Article‘Hannibal’ Director and Exec Producer David Slade Migrates to ‘American Gods’
We still don’t know who will star in American Gods, the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s novel which marks the major post-Hannibal project for producer Bryan Fuller. Now we do know, however, that the...
View ArticleFrancis Lawrence Directing Neil Gaiman ‘Neverwhere’ Adaptation for TV
The Hunger Games has been good to director Francis Lawrence. His career was set in a new, more firm direction by the success of the second film in the franchise, and he’s soon to see the release of...
View ArticleEdgar Wright and Johnny Depp Teaming Up for Neil Gaiman’s ‘Fortunately, the...
If you’re a fan of the work of author Neil Gaiman (Coraline), when you hear the talent coming together for an adaptation of his children’s book Fortunately the Milk, you’re going to flip your lid....
View ArticleMarvel Studios Passed on a ‘Doctor Strange’ Movie from Neil Gaiman and...
Right now Marvel Studios is in production on an adaptation of their mystical comic book character Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Scott Derrickson (Deliver Us from Evil)...
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