Henry Selick out, Ron Howard maybe in to direct live-action 'The
Graveyard Book'  It kind of sucks to be Henry Selick right now,
doesn't it? After earning much-deserved acclaim for Coraline a
few years ago, he spent the years since developing a dark
animated film called Shadow King for Disney. But Disney turned
on it for a number of reasons, and when no studio would pick it
up, the project just sort of died. But at the very least, Selick
had the eagerly anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The
Graveyard Book, which he planned to stop-motion animate for the
studio soon. Now he doesn't even have that.  It seems all the
upheaval over at Disney has led to them parting ways with
Selick, and now Ron Howard is in talks to direct the picture,
which is now being envisioned as a live-action feature. Oof.
Gaiman's award-winning story is basically a twisted take on The
Jungle Book, following a boy who grows up in a graveyard full of
ghouls and ghosts. It's great, award-winning stuff, and would
have been perfect for Se