Matthew Vaughn to Adapt Neil Gaiman's Stardust For the Big Screen
Scott Weinberg of Rotten Tomatoes reports that filmmaker Matthew Vaughn, the director of Layer Cake will be adapting Neil Gaiman's "adult fairy tale" Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie for the big screen.
Gaiman's novel, first published in 1997 as Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie, is set in a town in the English countryside where the magical and mortal mix. Story's centered on a young man who promises his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm, where he has to contend with witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.
Stardust, which won the 1999 Mythopoeic Award for adult novel, was originally set up at Dimension. The feature project's being developed with the goal of tapping into veins of fantasy and comedy akin to those in The Princess Bride and The Neverending Story.
It will either be genius or a total disaster. That's the way these things usually sort out. Of course, you could always just buy a copy of Stardust and read it: it's absolutely fantastic.
