SPOOK’S APPRENTICE gets ENCHANTED

Variety say it will be Kevin Lima who will adapt Joseph Delaney’s childrens book Spook’s Apprentice for Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures and not the duo of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp who were originally attached before the WGA strike kicked in.

Apparently Lima has become a much wanted director, especially at Disney, after his fantasy homage Enchanted made over $300 million worldwide.

Plot synopsis from Amazon…

A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins …

Sounds an awful like The Spiderwick Chronicles and without Tim Burton, it’s suddenly being chopped off my radar. There’s nothing worse for my money than a bland fantasy movie, let’s hope it doesn’t turn into that.

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