Neil Gaiman Pic ‘The Graveyard Book’ On Pause At Disney Amid Sexual Assault Allegations Against Author
deadline.comAmid a recent series of sexual assault allegations against award-winning author Neil Gaiman, Disney has put a planned feature adaptation of his 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book on pause, Deadline can confirm.
Reps for the studio declined comment. We’re told that there were a number of factors behind the decision to push pause on the film, the allegations against Gaiman — which the author has denied — being only one of them.
Among the first accusers to come forward against Gaiman, in reporting from the U.K.-based Tortoise Media, was Scarlett, who alleged that the author sexually assaulted her in New Zealand in February 2022, while she was working as a nanny to his child.
Another, K, said that after meeting Gaiman at a Florida book signing in 2003, aged 18, she was submitted to rough sex with him — amid an otherwise consensual relationship — which she “neither wanted nor enjoyed.” Don’t expect to hear more on The Graveyard Book until this situation plays itself out, as the project had been in deep development up until this point, with no cast yet attached.
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