Aardman!

Much to my delight, I hear that Aardman Studios (the people who made Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run) will be making a film adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Scarecrow and his Servant. I've been mistaken before, sadly--I thought that the Miyazaki adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle would be brilliant, but it turned out to be merely good--but my hopes are high for this collaboration.