Laika’s stop-animation adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (sure, we’re excited too!) has tapped author Dave Kajganich to pen the script.

Kajganich joins Laika CEO Travis Knight on the undertaking, with Knight serving as director. The author’s different credit embrace co-creating AMC’s The Terror and co-writing the script for Suspiria.

“Piranesi modified my soul and is likely one of the books in all of the world, of any period, I most cherish,” Kajganich stated in an announcement. “Having Travis’ and Susanna’s belief in adapting it’s one thing I take as an honor of the very best order. They’re two of the loveliest, smartest, and most humane individuals you may think about, so all of that is an precise dream coming true for me.”

In case you’re studying Reactor, odds are good that you simply’ve additionally learn Piranesi. Clarke’s story facilities on a person named Piranesi, who has no reminiscence past the previous couple of years and whose world is a Home with seemingly infinite rooms, corridors, and Fish. (And likewise Birds.) Twice every week, he meets a person he calls The Different, who’s evidently from one other world, a thriller that Piranesi finally, and superbly, unravels.

Kajganich has a formidable monitor document for his initiatives, and I’m curious to see how he’ll sort out Clarke’s materials for a characteristic. There’s nonetheless no information on once we’ll see the ultimate product, however given the time it takes to create stop-animation movies and the actual fact there nonetheless isn’t a script, it is going to possible be at the least a few years till it makes its solution to theaters.