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When Henry Selick made a deal to make stop-motion movies at Disney, he put an animated version of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book into development. That film didn’t work out, but the studio is now resurrecting it as a live-action movie, which THR say Ron Howard is in talks to direct.

The story is based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel that puts a genre spin on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The plot is about a young boy named Nobody Owens, who is raised by the ghosts in a cemetery after his family is murdered. As a teenager, the boy becomes pursued by an entity known as ‘The Man Jack,’ which killed his parents. Published in 2008, the book made history by becoming the first title to win both the Carnegie and Newberry medals.

Ron Howard will oversee the writing of a new screenplay. The filmmaker may also produce with his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer.

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It seems stop-motion master Henry Selick (Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas) has a new movie, as Disney has secured the rights to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Selick to direct, according to Deadline.

We just reported that Steve Kloves was writing and directing a live-action version of The Jungle Book for Warner Bros, and The Graveyard book gives a spooky take on the same story. However rather than being about a boy raised by wolves, this take follows a young lad who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered.

A while ago, Neil Jordan was to direct a live action version of the Newberry Award-winning novel, but now Disney and Selick have taken over the rights, with the film presumably planned as a stop-motion flick.

It may be a while until the director gets around to The Graveyard Book, as he won’t start making it until he finishes work on a top-secret movie with Pixar, which he’s currently putting together.