Tim Burton to Direct ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ Film

By Maryann Yin 

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tim Burton will direct a film adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie will hit the silver screen in July 31, 2015. X-Men: First Class screenwriter Jane Goldman will write the script.

Riggs has written a sequel entitled Hollow City. Quirk Books will publish it on January 14, 2014.  Just like in the first novel, the story will include creepy old photographs curated by the author.

(via Hypable)