Maybe it’s thematically appropriate that attempted adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book keep dying on the vine. The 2008 children’s fantasy is preoccupied with death and the macabre; it’s a sweetly morbid take on The Jungle Book, centering on a baby who toddles away from the house where his entire family has been murdered, and winds up living in a graveyard, raised by ghosts and monsters. It’s an unlikely project for beloved Arrested Development narrator and less-beloved mainstream director Ron Howard to take on, but he’s reportedly in negotiations to take over the adaptation.
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