Sunday, February 01, 2009

John Constantine: The Movie That's Stealing Harry Potter Fans

The Movie That's Stealing Harry Potter Fans
by John Constantine
The Daily Beast



Neil Gaiman’s darkly comic novels have made him a god among modern-day goths and fantasy fans—think Tim Burton hotwired with Philip K. Dick. Across his two-decade career, the 48-year-old cult author has become a bestselling author, comic-book legend (his Sandman series are the sort of hyper-literate fantasy English majors only dream of writing), and an accomplished screenwriter (Mirrormask). An animated film of his young-adult novel Coraline, about a girl who finds a secret world hidden behind a doorway in her London flat, will be released on February 6—from the team that created The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Daily Beast talked with Gaiman shortly after he was awarded a Newbery Medal for his new young-adult novel, The Graveyard Book, which will also become a feature film, directed by Neil Jordan.

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