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How books turn into movies

Author Neil Gaiman has had the film option on his young adult novel Coraline picked up and takes the occasion to explain how film options on books work. Interesting reading about the junction of the publishing and movie worlds.

If you haven't read Coraline, I recommend it highly. I'm excited to know that the proposed filmmaker is Henry Selick. He also made Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was produced but not written nor directed by Tim Burton). It sounds like a happy marriage of a great book to a great filmmaker.

(Link thanks to Maud Newton.)

Posted by Cindy on September 14, 2004
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