LAIKA Studios, the team behind stop-motion animated hits\u00a0ParaNorman\u00a0and\u00a0Coraline, are back with their sixth stop-motion movie,\u00a0Wildwood. It\u2019s billed as \u201cLAIKA\u2019s most ambitious cinematic journey yet,\u201d and a first look featurette was debuted over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Watch below for a sneak peek at LAIKA\u2019s Wildwood, coming soon.<\/p>\n
LAIKA previews, \u201cStep inside LAIKA\u2019s world of Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. In this first look, meet The General, voiced by Honorary Academy Award\u00ae recipient Angela Bassett, a fierce warrior and leader of the skies. Behind the scenes, the brilliant artists at LAIKA Studios are hand-crafting a character that soars beyond the screen through breathtaking stop-motion animation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wildwood\u00a0is written by\u00a0Chris Butler\u00a0(ParaNorman, Coraline), based on the novel by Colin Meloy, lead singer\/songwriter for The Decemberists, and illustrated by artist Carson Ellis.<\/p>\n
The epic fantasy is directed by\u00a0Kubo and the Two Strings\u00a0and\u00a0Bumblebee\u00a0director\u00a0Travis Knight, President & CEO of the award-winning animation studio. Here\u2019s the full synopsis:<\/p>\n
\u201cBeyond Portland\u2019s city limits lies Wildwood. You\u2019re not supposed to go there. You\u2019re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest\u2019s depths, and she \u2013 along with her hapless classmate Curtis \u2013 is going to get him back. Prue might think she\u2019s too old for fairytales, but she\u2019s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The voice cast for the upcoming Wildwood includes Peyton Elizabeth Lee,\u00a0Carey Mulligan,\u00a0Mahershala Ali, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Tom Waits,\u00a0and\u00a0Richard E. Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAIKA Studios, the team behind stop-motion animated hits\u00a0ParaNorman\u00a0and\u00a0Coraline, are back with their sixth stop-motion movie,\u00a0Wildwood. It\u2019s billed as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,8993,66710,397,66711],"class_list":{"0":"post-100844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-laika","12":"tag-laika-studios","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-wildwood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}