In an interview with icLiverpool, author Clive Barker revealed that Disney bought the rights to his dark child fantasy story series for a whopping $8 million and "Dune" miniseries screenwriter John Harrison is handling the adaptation.
Abarat is the story of the young Candy Quackenbush who is mysteriously transported to the archipelago of Abarat where each of the magical islands represent a different hour of the day and is characterised by that time of day (ie. the night ones are creepy).
Of his involvement, Barker says "The screenwriter is a man called John Harrison, who I respect enormously and he tells me the script is loyal to the books and I'm delighted that's so. I don't want to get too close to the creative process. I still have two more Abarat books to write. If I start to get involved in the film I'll be drawn back into the material from books one and two when in fact, as a writer, I should be looking forward. My job is to finish the story I have begun in very a spectacular fashion".
<a href="http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/tm_objectid=14610116%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=in%2da%2dterrifying%2dworld%2dof%2dhis%2down-name_page.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> for the full interview.
Thanks to 'Julez'
