Bradbury's "Dust Returned" Adapted

MGM has picked up the screen rights to Ray Bradbury's 2002 short story collection From the Dust Returned reports Deadline.

The stories focus on a mortal boy adopted into a family of benevolent ghouls. Each story reveals the eccentric characters that comprise his family.

Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing the pic.

 The pair had previously been linked to the new adaptation of Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man".