The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray Coming to the Screen

Steve Barton   |  

Aug 11, 2011

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Everyone loves a good haunting, but will this latest book-to-screen adaptation be able to cast the proper amount of scares? We’ll find out soon enough as according to Screen Daily, Trademark Films has acquired the film rights from Scholastic to Chris Wooding’s teen fantasy novel The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray.

Investor turned producer Ivan Mactaggart, who joined Trademark from financing company BMS as a partner (alongside David Parfitt) in December last year, told Screen that the project “inhabits a world somewhere between ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Underworld.’ There are two beautiful young things at the heart of it, and it has real franchise potential.”

Synopsis:
Set in a Victorian London of the future which is inhabited by ghouls and demons, the story centers around a young witch hunter whose mission is to protect a girl under threat.

More as it comes.

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