{"id":743530,"date":"2026-08-20T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743530\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:24:10","slug":"a-fantastical-journey-unfolds-in-gorgeous-wildwood-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743530\/","title":{"rendered":"A fantastical journey unfolds in gorgeous Wildwood trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the official logline, \u201cWildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her brother\u2014an odyssey shaped by love, power, and the courage to confront the unknown.\u201d Knight has said Wildwood is Laika\u2019s most ambitious project to date, featuring pitched battles and several aerial sequences. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to build up the creative tools, the technology and our storytelling muscles to do this book justice,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/wildwood-first-look-hardest-film-laika-studios-exclusive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told Empire<\/a> in 2024. The film <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/artists\/laika-wildwood-innovative-techniques-bigger-scope-1236547703\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">required<\/a> 136 sets and 231 practical puppets, augmented with some VFX.<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Elizabeth Lee voices Prue, while Jacob Tremblay voices Curtis, and Carey Mulligan voices Alexandra. The cast also includes Angela Bassett as a giant golden eagle called the General, Jake Johnson and Maya Erskine as Prue\u2019s parents, and Arthur Knight as her baby brother, Mac.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the film will feature Mahershala Ali as Brendan the Bandit King, Jemaine Clement as Roger Swindon, Awkwafina as a rat named Septima, Charlie Day as a coyote named Dmitri, Amandla Stenberg as Niamh, Tom Waits as Maxim, Tantoo Cardinal as Iphigenia, Richard E. Grant as the wise old Owl Rex, Marc Evan Jackson as Lars Svik, and Len Cariou as Richard. Rob Delaney, \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson, and Blythe Danner will voice as-yet-undisclosed roles.<\/p>\n<p>Wildwood opens in theaters on October 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per the official logline, \u201cWildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}