Hunger Games Director Adapting Gaiman's Neverwhere For TV

The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is working on a television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Deadline reports. Lawrence will executive producer and direct on the series.

Neverhwere actually got its start on television as a BBC miniseries Gaiman co-created with Lenny Henry, which aired on A&E in the United States. Gaiman then adapted the story into a novel.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy that focuses on Richard Mayhew, a mild-mannered Londoner who stumbles upon a bleeding girl in the street. When he takes the girl home, despite his fiancee's protests, he is introduced to the dual worlds of London Above and London Below. Mayhew resolves to help the girl, named Door, but doing so may cost him his entire life as he knows it.

Neverwhere was recently adapted into a BBC radio drama with an all-star cast that included James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, Christopher Lee, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Head, David Harewood, and Sophie Okonedo.

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