Disney took hold of the property and was developing it as a stop-motion film directed by Henry Selick. But those plans were skewered when Selick and Disney split.
Now, The Hollywood Reporter says Ron Howard is in talks to helm a live-action film.
Life of Pi‘s Gil Netter and Ben Browning will produce.
The novel concerns the life of Nobody Owens, a boy raised by the dead in a cemetery. So, think The Jungle Book, except with a macabre slant in which this kid is raised by the ghosts of a murdered family.
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