The Doubtful Guest Heading for Big Screen
Edward Gorey must be spinning like a top. The author/illustrator’s estate, the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust has agreed to a live-action version of The Doubtful Guest to be directed by Brad Peyton from a script by Michael Huffman with the full scale mauling to be handled by the Jim Henson Company.
Tim Burton would have been the perfect director, but Lisa Henson must be looking for ancillary merchandising opportunities, and not art.
Andreas Brown, owner of the Gotham Book Mart & Gallery in New York City, was one of the executors
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