It’s been many years since Walt Disney Studios acquired rights to Neil Gaiman’s best-selling novel The Graveyard Book, but it looks like the film adaptation may finally be happening.

After multiple directors signing on and exiting – among them The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline director Henry Selick – Deadline reports that World War Z director Marc Forster is officially attached to direct. The screenplay will be written by David Magee (writer of Life of Pi, and the recently announced Children of Blood and Bone).

The Graveyard Book tracks the story of the boy Nobody “Bod” Owens who is adopted and raised by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered and leaves him orphaned. Throughout his adventures, Bod learns supernatural abilities like Fading (allowing him to turn invisible, but only if no one is paying attention), Haunting (which allows Bod to make people feel uneasy and, in extreme cases, terrified) and Dreamwalking (going into others’ dreams and controlling the dream). Each chapter is a short story, and each jumps ahead two years.

The soon-to-release Netflix series The Sandman is also adapted from Gaiman’s work. The horror-fantasy series, which stars Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, and Boyd Holbrook, debuts August 5th.