The Ocean at the End of the Lane Movie Updates

Fri., Mar. 1, 2013

from Deadline

Focus Features, Playtone Acquire Neil Gaiman's New Novel For Joe Wright To Helm

Focus Features and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are closing a deal to acquire the new Neil Gaiman novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.

• added Shoebox Films as a production company
• added Playtone as a production company
• added Focus Features as a distributor
• added Joe Wright as Director to the credits
• added Paul Webster as Producer to the credits
• added Gary Goetzman as Producer to the credits
• added Tom Hanks as Producer to the credits
• added adaptation as genre
• added a synopsis

• When a young boy is seven a lodger steals the family’s car and commits suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it takes everything from the boy to just to stay alive. Hi... show all s only defense is three women on a ramshackle farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

• changed the production status to Announced
• created the movie profile