More news on what The Night Circus movie might look like, including casting, when it becomes available. Kayti Burt is a staff editor covering books, TV, movies, and fan culture at Den of Geek.

Geremy Jasper, the director of the Sundance sensation 'Patti Cake$,' has signed on to direct 'The Night Circus,' Lionsgate’s adaptation of the best-selling fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern.

“The Night Circus” was a No. 1 bestseller, translated into 37 languages and adapted into an upcoming movie.

Now in the whooshing slipstream of the book's and movie's popular success comes Erin Morgenstern's vaporous fairy tale, "The Night Circus" (Doubleday, 387 pages, $26.95).

Among the half-dozen magic-based movies in the works is one based on Erin Morgenstern’s promising and likable debut novel, The Night Circus, which pits rival magicians against each other in a ...