It has emerged this week that Stardust, the delightful fairy tale for adults written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Charles Vess may be moving forward in movie development. Variety reports that Michael Vaughn, producer-director of Layer Cake (oh dear…) and producer of Snatch (oh, dearie dear…) is talking to Paramount about directing an adaptation.
Stardust is an unusually simple tale for Neil – it (deliberately) lacks his normal multiple layering and references and provides instead a simple, elegant fairy tale for grown-ups (it isn’t really a graphic novel, rather a book with illustrations – by the excellent Vess – in the fashion of a children’s fairy tale book). Perhaps I do him a disservice, but I really can’t see Vaughn being the person to deal with this kind of tale at all. Just pray that they don’t write Vinnie Jones into the script…
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