Disney has bought the rights to Jonathan Auxier’s The Night Gardener, reports Variety.
The book is Auxier’s follow-up to his widely popular “Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes,” with this story “following two orphan siblings who travel to work as servants at the creepy, crumbling Windsor estate, but neither the house nor its inhabitants are quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious specter and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives.”
It will be developed by Sean Bailey’s Disney live-action group with Auxier adapting the script. Jim Whitaker will produce.
Via Amazon:
“The Night Gardener” follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its inhabitants are not quite what they seem. Soon, the children are confronted by a mysterious stranger—and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives.
A mesmerizing read and a testament to the magical power of storytelling, “The Night Gardener” is a spine-chilling fable in the tradition of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe.
