‘Wildwood’ Earns Raves: “The Most Beautiful Stop-Motion Film Ever Made"
The stop-motion fantasy adapts Colin Meloy’s novel with 200 practical puppets and 130 sets, according to the review.
- On Sunday, October 11, 2026, the stop-motion fantasy film Wildwood held its world premiere at the London Film Festival, directed by Laika CEO Travis Knight.
- Based on the 2011 novel, the story follows Portland teenager Prue McKeel on a desperate quest into the magical Impassible Wilderness to rescue her baby brother, Mac, after crows kidnap him.
- The gargantuan stop-motion production features 200 practical puppets and 130 practical sets to bring the elaborate story to life, establishing a record at 132 minutes as the longest stop-motion movie ever.
- Carey Mulligan voices the Dowager Governess Alexandra, a grief-stricken antagonist who orchestrates the kidnapping, while Tom Waits voices the coyote soldier Maksim commanding her forces.
- Following the London debut, Wildwood will open AFI Fest in Hollywood later this month before arriving in theaters on October 23, 2026.
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‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Epic Stop-Motion Wonder Lacks the Magic of the Studio’s Best Movies
On the one hand, Travis Knight’s “Wildwood” is an epic, eye-popping, and almost unfathomably well-crafted celebration of everything that makes Laika special — of everything that makes the Oregon-based stop-motion studio a singular force for good in a film industry where most companies are less interested in savoring the magic of animation than they are in seeing how many shortcuts they can take without breaking its spell. On the other hand, the …
‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Ambitious Stop-Motion Epic Is Both a Technical and Emotional Triumph
A teenage girl enters a mysterious kingdom in search of her kidnapped brother in Travis Knight's animated fantasy film, voiced by an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali.
'Wildwood' Review: Laika's Latest Sweeping Tale
Laika, the Oregon animation house that specializes in stop motion, has a perfect track record of landing Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations for all four of its first films: Coraline, ParaNorman, Missing Link, and Kubo and the Two Strings. With its latest and unquestionably most ambitious project Wildwood, the streak could well continue. This film […]
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