Coraline Film News
A film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Coraline is in the works and Henry Selick has been picked to write and direct according to Sci Fi Wire.
Selick is best known for the animated films, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. He was apparently approached by Neil Gaiman himself to get involved.
Selick describes Coraline as an Alice in Wonderland-esque story. “A little girl discovers a passageway in her house where [there's] kind of a mirror of her own life where her other mother and other father live. And it’s a fantastic world that’s been created for her. You think it’s about making a choice between her normal boring life or this other world where this other version of her mother, this much better version, [lives]. Everything is set up to please her, but really it’s more of a spider’s-web trap for children. It’s very scary and dark and fun.”
Coraline is one of very few Neil Gaiman stories I haven’t yet read. Mainly because I just haven’t gotten round to it yet. Never the less, as far as I’m concerned anything Neil Gaiman is worth finding out more about.
This could be really cool, fingers crossed. I love good children’s films. Bad children’s films, the ones that treat them like morons and lecture them, are painful. But good children’s films, those are wonderful, wonderful things.
Eoghann Irving is amongst other things the creator and Editor of Solar Flare. He has a life long interest in all forms of science fiction and fantasy and a pressing need to share this interest with anyone who will listen. Find out more at his personal website eoghann.com..
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