You probably noticed it if you watched the interview on "The Today Show," but The Graveyard Book is on its way to the silver screen, directed by Neil Jordan. I think that whole episode in the underground will be pretty cool visually, but I wonder how many of the standalone chapters in the first half are going to be cut to fit time. Oh well--cool anyway. It's slated for release in 2011.

Just spotted this via Mr. Gaiman's RSS and Twitter feed: Neil Jordan will be writing and directing The Graveyard Book film. And this article from the LA Times blog confirms it. So, do we think it will be real life people or animation?

Novelist Neil Gaiman, fresh off his Newbery medal win for The Graveyard Book, announced that director Neil Jordan will adapt and direct the film version of that award-winning novel. Gaiman made the announcement during a Today Show appearance. As GalleyCat reported, Gaiman won the American Library Association's prestigious award this week for Graveyard, which was illustrated by Dave McKean. Jo...

Neil Gaiman's receipt of the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book (newsflash: now to be made into a Neil Jordan film) has been much hailed already as a victory for populism, excitement, good old-fashioned storytelling and so on, as well as a chance at public rehabilitation for a prize that some say has slipped rapidly out of touch in recent years. Of course the Newbery Medal can only be award...