SlushFactory has posted a long, rambling interview with Neil Gaiman. He gives updates on a variety of upcoming projects, including his comics miniseries for Marvel, the Coraline audio book, and the myriad movie projects.

Among the good news tidbits:

• The Good Omens project with Terry Gilliam attached to direct may still have legs. They are $15 million short of their funding target and pursuing a rewrite to bring the film within the $50 million budget they have already obtained.

• Neil is working on the second draft of his Death: The High Cost Of Living screenplay. It appears to still be underway.

• The Books Of Magic movie is apparently beginning to take shape.

• Jim Henson Productions has commissioned Neil to write something for Dave McKean (!!!) to direct!

• And, a Coraline movie project is already stirring! The book was sent to Tim Burton and Henry Selick (who directed the Burton projects Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach), and Selick has already moved to close a deal on it and begun writing script drafts.

The dry season for fans awaiting movies of the Gaiman multiverse may finally be drawing to an end. Don't get your hopes up too much until the clouds actually break, though.

All this and more, not just about the movies, in the interview, so go read Neil's musings to learn why he liked the Spiderman movie, and why he thinks Lord Of The Rings would have been better as a BBC miniseries.