Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere has made a strange journey to the big screen... In 1996, the story was made for a television mini-series and also written into a book at the same time which was released a year later. Then came it's own comic book series and even a frikkin' stage production of the story until finally in 2007 it looks like a movie adaptation is on the way from a script Gaiman wrote seven years ago! That's a huge ten year journey from the small screen to the big one.
David Slade will direct the movie for the big screen. He previously directed the well received
Hardy Candy and is the man behind the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of
30 Days of Night. He is being touted as the next big thing, much like
Zack Snyder was in 2004 and an adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story is a great next career move for him.
The story follows a bumbling businessman named Richard Mayhew, who ends up in an alternate dimension world called London Below. While there he must help a girl named Door, who is looking for answers regarding the murder of her family members.
This is just one of many, many projects that Gaiman has upcoming as his work is getting more attention than that of
Frank Miller at the moment. Of course, his latest work to be adapted for the screen
Stardust bombed this week at the box office, despite being well reviewed by most. source -
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