3 weeks ago
Laika connected Wednesday released nan first trailer for Wildwood, nan first stop-motion animated movie from nan workplace since 2019’s The Missing Link, nan astir caller successful a drawstring of 5 Oscar-nominated pics successful a statement making love backmost to 2009’s Coraline.
The caller pic, directed and produced by Laika leader Travis Knight, was adapted by Masters of nan Universe and Kubo and nan Two Strings scribe Chris Butler from nan book bid by The Decemberists’ frontman Colin Meloy. It will open successful theaters October 23 via Fathom Entertainment, nan specialty supplier that has antecedently backed rereleases of Laika hits for illustration Coraline and 2012’s ParaNorman.
The plot: After her babe relative is abducted by a execution of crows, headstrong teen Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) launches a hopeless rescue ngo into nan Impassable Wilderness — an enchanted wood hidden conscionable beyond Portland, OR. (Knight grew up successful Portland; there’s a bully Hawthorne Bridge cameo successful today’s teaser trailer, which is backed by nan M83 opus “My Tears are Becoming a Sea.”)
Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay), Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and powerful figures driven by condolences and ambition. As nan brace is drawn into a conflict threatening nan equilibrium of nan wood itself, Prue must observe nan spot and belief she ne'er knew she possessed. If she hopes to prevention her relative and protect Wildwood’s vulnerable future, she will person to consequence everything.
The sound formed besides features Carey Mulligan, Richard E. Grant, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Blythe Danner, Arthur Knight, Maya Erskine, Jake Johnson, Tantoo Cardinal, Rob Delaney, Jemaine Clement, Marc Evan Jackson, Len Cariou, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Angela Bassett and Mahershala Ali.
In summation to Coraline, ParaNorman, Kubo and nan Two Strings and Missing Link, Laika’s different Oscar-nominated pic was 2014’s The Boxtrolls.
Check retired nan Wildwood teaser trailer above.
