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Focus Features, Playtone Acquire Neil Gaiman’s New Novel For Joe Wright To Helm

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 4:39pm PSTTags: Focus Features, Joe Wright, Neil Gaiman, Playtone's Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane. Joe Wright is being attached to direct, and his Shoebox Films partner Paul Webster is coming aboard to produce with Hanks and Goetzman. The film will be a co-production between Playtone and Shoebox.

The Ocean At The End of the Lane will be published in June by William Morrow. According to jacket copy, it’s about about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. The narrator describes a tale that begins when he was seven and a lodger stole the family’s car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and a menace unleashed — within his family, and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. READ MORE »

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Neil Gaiman To Pen Upcoming ‘Doctor Who’ Episode That Marks Return Of The Cybermen

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday November 7, 2012 @ 4:53am PSTTags: Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman

Author Neil Gaiman won a Hugo Award for his last Doctor Who episode, 2011′s The Doctor’s Wife. Series exec producer Steven Moffat has now confirmed that Gaiman will script an episode of the current season that features the return of the Cybermen — notorious cyborg enemies of the Time Lord since 1966. (They were last seen in 2011′s Closing Time.) The episode will air next spring and also co-star Life’s Too Short‘s Warwick Davis, EastEnders‘ Tamzin Outhwaite and Being Human‘s Jason Watkins. Stephen Woolfenden, a second unit director on some of the Harry Potter films, is helming the episode. Read More »

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Comic-Con: Neil Gaiman To Write New ‘Sandman’ Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 10:51pm PDTTags: Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, DC Entertainment, Neil Gaiman, Vertigo

Author Neil Gaiman will collaborate with artist J.H. Williams III (Batwoman) on a new limited series based on his classic graphic novel The Sandman for … Read More »

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Henry Selick To Direct Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ In Disney Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 7:08pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Disney, Neil Gaiman, Sean Bailey
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: This Disney deal for Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book keeps getting more interesting. I’ve learned that Henry Selick, who helmed Gaiman’s Coraline, is now attached to direct The Graveyard Book at Disney. Selick, best known … Read More »

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Playtone Setting Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ For HBO Series

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 4:20pm PDTTags: Gary Goetzman, Martin Scorsese, Neil Gaiman, Oliver Stone, Playtone, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Hanks, TV, TV Deals
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: As HBO prepares to unveil its epic-sized series adaptation of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones this Sunday, the payweb has begun talks to acquire the Neil Gaiman novel American Gods to be developed into another fantasy series. The … Read More »

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A Post Comic-Con Wish List of 15 Films The Geek Crowd Really Wants To See

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 26, 2010 @ 8:21am PDTTags: Akira, At the Mountains of Madness, Bioshock, Brian K. Vaughan, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Gore Verbinski, Guillermo Del Toro, Isaac Asimov, Katsuhiro Otomo, Marc Forster, Mark Protosevich, Max Brooks, Neil Gaiman, Neill Blomkamp, Sam Raimi, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, World War Z
Mike Fleming

Studios brought stars and film clips to Comic-Con, seeking geek love for all of its superhero and fantasy projects. While they’re paying attention, how about some of the more ambitious films these die-hards have waited years to see? After … Read More »

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