Matthew Vaughn To Direct Neil Gaiman’s Stardust
It looks as though Matthew Vaughn will be directing the movie version of Neil Gaiman’s fairy tale Stardust if reports in Variety are anything to go by. It seems that Paramount is now in what they call final negotiations with Vaughn to direct the movie.
Stardust was published in 1997 under the full title of Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie. The story is set in the English countryside and is about a young man who promises his love that he’ll retreive a fallen star. In doing so he has to contend with witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.
Paramount is in final negotiations with Brit filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (”Layer Cake”) to direct and produce his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s adult fairy tale “Stardust” reports Variety.
Gaiman’s novel, first published in 1997 as “Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie,” is set in a town in the English countryside where the magical and mortal mix. Stardust won the 1999 Mythoepoeic award for adult novel.
Matthew Vaughn has already penned a script for Stardust with his writing partner Jane Goldman. The project is being developed with hopes of tapping the same vein of comedy and fantasy that was captured in The Princess Bride.
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