Adopting Coraline

Years back, before Coraline was even written as a Novel, Neil Gaiman met Henry Selick. In this encounter Gaiman mentioned that he had Selick in mind as a potential director for the animating of one of his novels some day in the future. Then along came Coraline.

Selick is a stop-motion animation director from New Jersey, he's best known for his works in James and the Giant Peach and the even better known Nightmare Before Christmas. It is said that Selick has also taken an interest to Gaiman's book, The Graveyard Book as well. (Hopefully!)


INTERESTING SIDE NOTE:
The dollar bill given to the movers as a tip at the beginning of the movie presents Selick's face on the bill.