Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel Neverwhere is heading to TV - a good couple of decades after its original run.
The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is behind the adaptation. Neverwhere was initially a BBC Two mini-series in 1996, created by both Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and starring one Peter Capaldi.
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Neverwhere, which later became a novel, was most recently a BBC radio drama broadcast in 2013. The star-studded voice cast included Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Head, James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Christopher Lee, David Harewood and Sophie Okonedo.
Deadline reports that Lawrence will direct and executive-produce the new TV adaptation.
The official synopsis for the BBC radio broadcast was as follows:
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In urban fantasy Neverwhere, when Richard Mayhew encounters an injured girl named Door on the street one night, he decides to help her despite his fiancée's protests.
Upon doing so he ceases to exist on Earth and becomes real only to the denizens of "London Below", whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of "London Above".
He loses his house, his job and nearly his mind as he travels London Below in an attempt to make sense out of it all, find a way back and help Door survive as she is hunted down by hired assassins.
Watch a clip from Neverwhere's BBC Two 1996 miniseries below:
