Joe Cornish has “never knowingly” seen a ghost. But, he says, you never really know. “When you leave the room, I might say, ‘I just spoke to Laura Kelly today,’ and they might say… ‘but Laura died last week.’”
A willingness to find the spooky in the everyday bodes well for Cornish’s latest project. As showrunner for the big-budget Netflix adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s books, he’s been fully immersed in a world plagued by ghosts that can kill you with one touch. As is so frequently the case in Cornish’s imaginative landscapes, our only hope
