Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Sequel Gets Unfortunate Update
It’s from Comicbook.com so they are going to great pains to avoid mentioning certain… Uh… Things.
Just two months after news broke that Coraline filmmaker Henry Selick was planning to adapt Neil Gaiman‘s The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the filmmaker now says it looks like that movie is in a pretty uncertain state. At the time, Selick had said he hoped to make it his next film if he could find studio backing, but it’s possible that with a number of abuse allegations recently made against Gaiman, any efforts to find backing for the project have been stymied. Back in June, Selick said he was shopping a 35-page treatment and plenty of concept art around to studios.
Without giving details about any particular deals, the Nightmare Before Christmas director suggested that ShadowMachine (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio) and Coraline studio Laika were two obvious frontrunners. In a new interview, he told GamesRadar+ that things were not looking promising.
“It’s something I love and have danced around,” Selick said. “It’s almost come together a few times. I would hope that it might still come together, but I have no predictions.”
In short, the project is shitcanned because of Neil Gaiman’s sexual abuse scandal. It’s becoming more and more apparent that the Google Algorithm is getting sick and tired of having to defend the undefendable. The first 3/4s of the 1st page is articles on the scandal, after that, it’s stuff like “Neil Gaiman’s Masterclass.”
Youtube however is much worse. That’s mostly critical videos at this point.
Worst of all is the reliably hard-left TikTok. Search for Neil Gaiman and the landing page looks like this.
Season 3 of Good Omens is supposed to start shooting in January (thanks for the info Neil). However, that is beginning to sound dicey. There have been worried meetings at Amazon. The House That Jeff Built will pounce on any excuse at this point to “delay production.”
I am willing to bet that an announcement to this effect will be quietly released on Election Day where it will be buried. Operation Tubcuddle is failing. This one won’t go away.
