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Tim Burton's Next Project May Be 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children'

With filming for the feature-length animated film Frankenweenie now complete as well as the "made for the big screen" veron of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. It now looks as if filmmaker Tim Burton may already have a new project in the works. Does this guy ever take any time off?

According to Deadline, Burton is in early talks to come aboard the Ransom Riggs novel

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children the feature-length veron, which was acquired last spring by

20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment. Burton is in talks to develop the book as a potential directing project, and he would be involved in setting a writer to adapt the tale.



The story "involves Jacob, a 16-year-old whose childhood was filled with stories his grandfather told him about an orphanage for unusual children. Among the redents: a girl who could hold fire in her hands, another whose feet never touched the ground, and twins who communicated without speaking. When his beloved grandfather dies unexpectedly but leaves a message behind for his grandson, the teen heads off to his grandfather’s home on an isolated island off Wales. There he discovers the abandoned remains of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It is in great disrepair, and as Jacob explores its bedrooms and hallways, he can see the children were more than peculiar; they might have been there because they were dangerous. And he can’t shake the feeling they are still lurking around."

Source: Deadline