Director Tim Burton has found the actor he wants to play the character Jacob Portman in his upcoming adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. No official offer has been made yet but reports are that Burton wants Asa Butterfield to take on the role.

In the book, Jacob Portman is a 16-year-old boy who seeks to find the truth about his grandfather’s past after he’s murdered, and finds himself at a home where children with special abilities live and are watched over by their guardian Miss Peregrine (who will be played by Eva Green in the movie). While there he learns of monsters known as the “hollows,” which only he can see, leaving him to protect the peculiar children.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, 300: Rise of an Empire and Penny Dreadful actress Eva Green has entered into negotiations to star in Tim Burton‘s next project, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

The movie is based on the book of the same name from author Ransom Riggs, which follows a 16-year-old boy who, after a family tragedy, finds himself trying to help protect a group of orphans with special abilities from creatures known as “hollows.” Green would play the title character, Miss Peregrine, who watches over the orphans.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle Edition
Written by Ransom Riggs
Quirk Books
Cover Price: $17.99

While I’ve never made a bag of bones about my fondness for the work of Stephen King, it’s understandable that not everyone shares my appreciation for his books. With Halloween around the corner, bibliophiles looking for something to get them into the spirit of the supernatural season might enjoy the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.

Written by Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children was published in 2011 by the aptly-named Quirk Books, and fits in perfectly with the publishing company’s growing library of oddball titles, among them Wedding Dogs, Lovecraft Middle School, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Night of the Living Trekkies, and William Shakespeare’s Star Wars.

Without giving away too much, Miss Peregrine’s tells the story of a young boy named Jacob who loves the tales told to him by his grandfather, Abe, a WWII veteran and Jewish refugee.