‘Zeitoun’ as Cartoon: Demme Plans Animated Film of Eggers Book - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

The director said he was presently “deep, deep, deep into researching” how he would produce the animation for his film, but that he favored a hand-drawn style. He also said that the film’s score would be created by the New Orleans jazz performer Donald Harrison Jr. and the Palestinian musician Zafer Tawil, who both contributed to the score of “Rachel Getting Married.”

Mr. Demme emphasized that the story of his “Zeitoun” film would stick closely to the facts of Mr. Eggers’s book. “While honoring the absolute truth of the Zeitouns’ experience and the truth of what happened in New Orleans,” he said, “we all feel like we have a chance to do right.”