Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Eva Green is in negotiations to star in Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' novel "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” at 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment. Green would play the title character, who acts as a guardian for the orphans. The story follows a teenager who finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures out to destroy them.