Hola readerinos... Neil Gaiman has been touring up a storm as of late and it seems that while he is wearing down... He's also developing a whole slate of coolness for our cinematic interests. It seems that Bob Weistein likes the ol boy. Unlike most studios where you have an endless stream of yes men and no men.... Dimension and Miramax tends to tread a lot on the instincts of one or two people... Bob and Harvey. I like that. I like the buck stopping with a certain dude instead of being relegated to an endless supply of stiff necked dweebs with vacuum noses. Well... I hope this works out for Neil. He's got his script of PRINCESS MONONOKE (american dubbed version) and NEVERWHERE on track... If STARDUST gets the same treatment... well... could be cool. Let's see....
Hey, Harry. I'm a faithful reader of your site up here in Toronto. Went to see Neil Gaiman at a local book signing. This is the last stop on his book tour to promote STARDUST. After reading from his book, Neil fielded a few questions about some of his properties that Hollywood is developing. SANDMAN is in the hellish clutches of Jon Peters. We know that. And NEVERWHERE is being developed by Jim Henson Productions and Miramax. Looks like it's a go. Anyway, here's the real scoop, and Neil told the audience we were the first to hear this. When he was in L.A. on his book tour, he took a meeting with Bob Weinstein of Miramax about NEVERWHERE. Weinstein asked Neil why he seemed so tired. Neil mentioned the grueling multi-city book tour he was doing to promote STARDUST. So Weinstein asked him what this STARDUST was all about. Neil told him the story, and Bob said he was interested in making it into a movie then and there, without even reading the book. Anyway, Neil said that today Weinstein made him an offer that included Gaiman writing the script. Could be extremely cool. Oh, apparently Weinstein said that he wanted Gwyneth Paltrow to play the part of the fallen star in the tale.
