The Jungle Book In A Graveyard
According to Deadline, Disney has acquired the rights to adapt Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book. Director Henry Selick (Coraline) will once again team-up with Gaiman to bring the best-selling children’s book to the big screen. The Graveyard Book, a Newbury Award winner, is something of a variation on The Jungle Book, only instead of having a boy raised by wolves, a young orphan is raised by ghosts in a graveyard.
Synopsis Follows:
It takes a graveyard to raise a child.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family.